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Oct. 19, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 19, 2012, Friday, Hour #3
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Greetings, my friends.
Great to have you back.
Yes, it's El Rushbo, your guiding light.
Trouble, confusion, murkiness, tumult, chaos, despair, lies, deceit, and sometimes even the good times.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida, it's open live Friday.
All right, so I'm being accused of not playing the best Obama sound bites from the Alfred Smith dinner.
Emailers, people in the email.
You purposely, you left out Obama's best stuff.
I knew you would.
You just can't stand when Obama smokes Romney.
Right.
Obama smoked Romney, Letrick.
I'll tell you the two things I left out.
I'm trying to actually spare Obama some embarrassment here by not playing these things.
He said the unemployment rate is at its lowest level since I took office.
I don't have a joke.
I have a joke here.
I just thought it'd be useful to remind everybody that the unemployment rate is at its lowest since I took off.
There was a—I mean, this is a lighthearted, self-deprecating, make-fun-of-yourself kind of night.
It's a tradition.
Presidential candidates show up.
They tell jokes.
And Obama stood up there and said the unemployment rates at its lowest level since I took office.
I don't have a joke here.
I just thought it'd be useful.
Which tells me he's living the lie.
He wants to sit there and brag about 112,000 jobs being created.
By the way, you know what we've learned?
You know what we've learned?
The official in California that did not report California's unemployment numbers that week is an Obama donor.
California didn't report their numbers that week.
They get them in on time.
As such, a state with really high unemployment didn't get its numbers in, and so it wasn't as bad.
That's how they got the number down to 7.8%.
And it turns out that the guy who screwed it up is an Obama donor.
How convenient.
Shosaiam.
So you think I'm cheating Obama by not playing the hype?
Okay, I'll hear it again.
The unemployment rate is at its lowest level since I took off.
I don't have a joke here.
I just thought it'd be useful to remind everybody.
The unemployment rate.
And I'm telling you, people are looking around at each other going, yeah, right, bragging about that.
Jeez.
And then the other high point that I'm being accused of shielding from you is everybody looking forward to the next debate coming up on foreign policy.
Well, spoiler alert.
We got bin Laden.
That was it.
And when you boil it down, that's all he's got.
This is it.
Unemployment rate, 7.8%, and I got bin Laden.
So you Obamaites, I thought I was doing you a favor by not playing those soundbites.
I thought I was being fair, but he's not called an empty chair for nothing.
On the eve of foreign policy debate, growing pessimism about Arab Spring aftermath.
Oh, no, what's this?
This is a Pew Research Center story.
What's this?
Ah, it's a poll.
Here, listen to this, ladies and gentlemen.
According to the latest Pew Poll, which was conducted October 4th through the 7th, before the second debate and before the more recent revelations about Ben Ghazi, Romney has gained a whopping 11 points against Obama on foreign policy just since September.
However, Obama still leads Romney on handling foreign policy.
By the way, Pew oversampled Democrats by 4% here.
However, their story begins thus, as next week's third and final presidential debate on foreign policy approaches.
A national survey by us at the Pew Research Center finds increasing public pessimism about developments in the Middle East.
Meaning the Arab Spring no longer has people enthralled.
Now, wait at least people find out the truth that we had for you today about Benghazi and the initial 24 hours and the video being used as a cover story for the fact that al-Qaeda now has a beachhead in Benghazi as a result of our taking out Gaddafi.
Not looking particularly good.
Now, there's a hubbub and a firestorm late yesterday afternoon.
Obama, before going to the Alfred E. Smith dinner, went over to Jon Stewart's show and he taped an interview there, sixth appearance on the Daily Show.
And here, let me grab somebody number two.
This is what it is.
Jon Stewart said, is part of the investigation helping the communication between these divisions?
Stewart here had no clue.
He was clueless.
He's asking a question, obviously, from the standpoint of the left.
And he's trying to give Obama some cover with this.
But he didn't know yesterday, what we now know, that there was no coordinated investigation to try to get to the bottom of anything.
It was a cover-up.
Is part of the investigation, Mr. President, helping the communication between these divisions?
I mean, not just what happened in Benghazi, but what happened within Benghazi?
Because I would say, even if you would admit, it was not the optimal response, at least the American people, as far as all of us being on the same page.
I don't know what that question is.
I think what he's asking Obama is, do you guys know what you're doing?
You have this investigation and the results here are not the best.
It was not optimal here as far as everybody understanding what went on.
And this is what Obama said.
Here's what I'll say.
If four Americans get killed, it's not optimal.
And we're going to fix it.
All of it.
And what happens during the course of a presidency is that the government is a big operation.
At any given time, something screws up.
And you make sure that you find out what's broken and you fix it.
Yeah, if you realize that government never screws up in health care, it never screws up in welfare.
It never screws up in anything else it does.
I mean, the government's the answer to everything in his world.
But now, well, you realize during the course of presidency, government's a big operation.
And at any given time, screws up.
Anyway, people went ballistic when Obama said that four Americans getting killed is not optimal.
When I saw that he was pivoting off of what WhatsApp Stewart said and using a word that Stewart used, it wasn't nearly as problematic for me, but I'll tell you what, all you need to know from this optimal thing.
And here's the real thing to know.
Tells you everything.
When Obama says not optimal, how come he has no reluctance whatsoever about calling this movie disgusting, reprehensible, everything else he's called it, but he can't bring himself to issue a clear-voiced condemnation of Islamic terror.
He still has not done.
Do you know he still has not called this a terrorist attack?
Everybody thinks after the debate that he and Candy Crowley cooked up there that he did call it a terror attack, and he didn't.
And if people who watched the debate didn't watch the next day, they don't know.
Of course, he didn't get a bounce out of that debate, folks.
I'm just Snurdley was stunned.
He couldn't believe it.
Inside the Beltway experts, the elites can't believe it.
Obama didn't get a bounce.
And everybody said he won.
But he didn't.
I told you.
But the thing that he can't get himself to issue a clear-voiced condemnation of Islamic terror, but he will use optimal or agree with the use of optimal.
They won't even call the Fort Hood terror attack a terror attack.
Even now, with the guy on trial, they won't do that.
You see, in the alternative universe in which Obama lives, he doesn't live in Rielville, there isn't any al-Qaeda anymore.
There isn't any terrorism.
He vanquished it.
Besides, even if there is some terrorism, you don't insult them by calling them that because that will just make them attack more.
Conflict Resolution 101.
I mean, that's the school the guy comes from.
Yeah, but ragging about killing Osama.
Now, that's, you just flex his muscles there because there's no doubt Osama's a bad guy.
Everybody agrees with that.
So he's on safe ground.
Anyway, this is the guy.
Let's keep in mind, this is the guy who can't bring himself to condemn terrorism, yet expects the public to follow along these elaborate lies and creations.
They're language screw-ups, like Romney and binders and stuff.
I just don't think they're fooling anybody anymore.
Certainly not.
And hey, FBI arrests second suspect in bomb plot against bank, Bangladeshi man, arrested Wednesday on charges he plotted to blow up the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
He had an accomplice in San Diego.
He is a accomplice was arrested later on unrelated child pornography charges.
Now, the plot to blow up the Fed is interesting on several levels, not the least being how the drive-bys are trying to soft-pedal the fact that this guy's a Muslim.
He's a bin Laden and an al-Qaeda fan, and they're not reporting it.
They're soft-peddling it.
Not even this is a terror attack or plot.
And now a second Muslim has been arrested, but you would never know it.
I was reading here from the New York Times story.
You would never know it from the New York Times story.
Anyway, let's take a brief time out here, my friends.
L. Rushboat, yeah, I still got it.
Hillary Clinton trashing whiners.
I promised you yesterday I would get to it.
And it is at the top of this.
I'm just now getting to the stack that I prepared for today's show.
The Benghazi stuff happened between 11 and noon today.
That's how I put it all together then.
At any rate, your phones are coming up.
And Hillary Clinton trashes whining women.
All coming next here on Open Line Friday.
Now, it has been brought to my attention by a friend in the email that the optimal comment that Obama made might be a much bigger thing than any of us know because of where it happened.
Jon Stewart.
Jon Stewart's show, to the young skulls full of mush out there, is thought to be the real news, particularly among young skulls full of mush.
It's thought to be the news.
Stewart's base and many in the media, I mean, they do, they hold Stewart's show in high regard.
And Obama said something very cold and stupid in some people's mind.
No matter whether Stewart let him into it and pivoted into it or Obama was pivoting off of it, the death of four Americans are not optimal.
And it turns out that Pat Smith, who is the mother of Sean Smith who died in the Benghazi attack, hit out at Obama for describing the attack as not optimal.
She said, my son's not very optimal.
He's also very dead.
So Sean Smith's mom heard about it or saw it, not happy about it.
And this Pat Smith was the mother, she was speaking exclusively to the UK Daily Mail online.
She's quoted as saying it was a disrespectful thing to say, and I don't think it's right.
How can you say somebody being killed is not very optimal?
I don't think the president has the right idea of the English language.
That's what.
Now she's the mother of a man killed.
And what do you mean in his defense?
Snurdle.
This is great.
Nerdly saying, on this one, Rush, we got to cut Obama some slack.
He didn't mean anything by this.
He's just a cold fish.
Meaning, he's not a very feeling guy.
This is not unusual.
That's your point, right?
I mean, it's Obama.
He's a cold guy.
He's not Mr. Cool.
He's not Mr. He's an aloof, cold, unattached guy.
This is exactly who he is.
No big deal.
That's your point.
Deaths were optimal.
I mean, it's not the best thing that happened for him in his campaign.
It could have been something better that happened for his campaign.
Not very good for the campaign.
It's not optimal.
But I have to deal with it.
That's your take on.
I understand.
I understand your serious.
I think I was one of the first to observe that I don't believe he's cool, calm, and he's a cold guy.
And looked at this.
It's unfortunate.
If somebody's going to die, in the middle of my campaign, it's not optimal.
That's the snurdly interpretation of the comment.
Here's Steve in Defiance, Ohio.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Ditto, Rod.
Thanks for taking my call.
Thank you, sir.
How did this place, let's say, there's Defiance, Ohio.
There's something else.
There's another Ohio that's named something like it.
Defiance Alliance.
There's an alliance and there's also an independence.
Right.
We get that a lot.
Well, it's great to have you on Open Line Friday.
Hello.
Great.
Yeah, I'm an entrepreneur and I'm raising capital for my startup.
And I just wanted to share with you how incredibly hard it's been to find investors in Obama's economy.
Okay.
So many of them have just told me that they love the concept that I have, but they're just holding on to their money because they're just not sure what Obama's going to do if he gets re-elected.
It's been really frustrating.
For those of you in Riolinda, when Steve says here he's looking for capital, that's money.
And you're looking for investors, and they're reluctant because they may not have much if Obama's re-elected.
And what?
Exactly.
And because of taxes and whatever other requirements they're going to have to meet, like health care expenditures they might have to make.
No, I know.
What about the banks?
Have you tried getting money from a bank?
Almost impossible.
What?
Almost impossible.
I'm a third-generation small business family, and we used to be able to go to the bank anytime we needed it with our reputation and our credit.
Here, they just kind of look at me like, yeah, there's really nothing we can do.
Really?
Yep.
With all the new regulations and everything.
And we have connections with several of the CEOs of local banks here.
Okay, see, this is the point.
Guys like you, it's about time you found out what the rest of the country's had to live like.
You were living off your connections.
You knew people in powerful places that other people like the Obama phone lady never knew, never met, and she didn't have the opportunities you.
Well, it's about time these people told you to take a hike so that you, this is Obama's, this is what he thinks.
It's about time you found out what it's like.
That's right.
You had an unfair shot.
You had a greater opportunity because you knew people.
You knew somebody.
Somebody was able to help you out.
And that's not a fair shot for somebody else.
I'm not.
Look, it may sound, that's exactly how he thinks, folks.
And do not doubt me.
He may not have this personal desire that you don't get a loan.
But I'm telling you, when he hears a story like this, he hears success.
Okay, so nobody ought to get a loan because they know somebody.
This networking business, because not everybody can.
It's not fair.
It's not a fair shot.
And it's not a fair result.
You shouldn't have that advantage.
Your family, so what?
Not everybody has family connections.
And those that don't don't have an advantage like you do.
It's about time you found out what it's like to be said no to.
That's Obama.
That's Obama economics.
So what are you going to do?
Just keep your head down, keep going.
It's all you can do.
You don't ever fail until you actually give up.
Well, hang in there.
Hang in there, because I think if Romney wins this, you'll be able to get some money the next day.
Now, I was deadly serious when I was telling Steve from Defiance, Ohio.
If Romney wins the election, he'll get money the next day.
If he's got the credit that he says he's got, everything else being equal, he'll be able to get the money the next week.
You watch, folks.
If Romney wins this election, you watch the shackles, the invisible shackles that are going to take up, they're going to be removed from this economy.
Well, they're not invisible, but with the prospect of Obama gone and no more Obama-ism and Romney back to the free market in that direction, you watch.
It's going to be one of the fastest recoveries we've ever seen.
Okay, we went back.
Cookie now has furnished me with the actual audio of the two Obama soundbites on the Alfred E. Smith dinner that Obamaites in the email accused me of not playing.
The high points.
We played Romney.
We played three or four Obamas, and I got hateful email.
You purposely left out Obama's best.
It shows you're not fair.
It shows you're biased against Obama.
Really?
What's your first clue?
But here they are with the applause not edited, the laughter not edited.
I make sure that's right here.
Make sure that's right.
Let me just, Jimmy, just check here.
Yep, that's right.
Here we go.
Here's the first.
We've got two of these.
Of course, the economy is on everybody's minds.
The unemployment rate is at its lowest level since I took office.
I don't have a joke here.
I just thought it'd be useful to remind everybody that the unemployment rate is at the lowest it's been since I took office.
And we're getting to that time when folks are making up their minds.
Just the other day, Honey Boo-Boo endorsed me.
So that's a big relief.
Okay, there you have it.
There's one.
Didn't edit anything there.
Honey Boo-Boo is a new cartoon or dollar or stuff.
Reality show.
That's what it is.
It's a reality show.
But what is Honey Boo-Boo?
Honey Boo-Boo's little bear.
It's a little girl.
Honey Boo-Boo's a little girl.
A human girl or an animal girl?
Human?
You got to be kidding me.
Honey Boo-Boo is a little girl with a trailer park-like mother.
What network is this show on?
I'll find out.
I'll find out.
Okay, so that's the target audience.
You've got to endorse a honey boo-boo.
I guarantee you, the guys in white tie and tails at the Alfred E. Smith dinner probably know who Honey Boo-Boo is either.
They might have thought it's a new running back for the Giants, for all they know.
Okay, and here's the next one: Bin Laden.
Here's the next sterling moment of Obama from the Alfred E. Smith dinner that I was accused of being unfair because I didn't play earlier.
Now, Monday's debate is a little bit different because the topic is foreign policy.
Spoiler alert, we got Bin Laden.
Of course, world affairs are a challenge for every candidate.
Some of you guys remember after my foreign trip in 2008, I was attacked as a celebrity because I was so popular with our allies overseas.
And I have to say I'm impressed with how well Governor Romney has avoided that problem.
What problem has he avoided, being liked or being a celebrity?
Because if he's avoided being a celebrity, that's good.
But with the Bamster, you never know.
Here's Scott Rasmussen.
Now, told you there was no Obama bounce after the second debate.
Snurdly, insolence.
How do you explain that?
And you were here.
You heard it.
There wasn't, because he didn't win the debate.
There was not an Obama slam dunk, not like the Inside the Beltway minions think so.
Here's Scott Rasmussen.
He's on with Megan Kelly on Fox News.
And she said, what do those numbers tell us about the impact of the presidential debate in Hempstead, Long Island?
Mitt Romney had a big gain after that first debate.
The president had a much better performance in the second debate in Long Island, but it looks like all he managed to do is to stop the bleeding.
The numbers are not shifting back in his direction.
They're holding steady.
The fact that Florida and Virginia, Romney increased his lead by a point in each of those states, is really indicative of a very close race.
We see the same in some other Battleground states.
Whoa!
Not only did the Bamster not get a bounce, it looked like Romney bumped up a little bit in some Battleground states after the second debate.
I don't want to sit here and say I told you, but I don't have to.
I think you all saw the same debate I did.
I'm sure that you thought that Romney could have done better in a couple of points where he could have slammed Obama into the turf.
But in terms of reciting Obama's agenda to him and his economic performance and no rebuttal to it, I'm telling you, it was another very damaging debate for Obama.
Debate number two was, and I don't care what Kenny Crowley says, I don't care what people in the establishment say the way they score the debate.
This doesn't surprise me in the slightest.
Who's next?
John in Gainesville, Florida.
I'm glad you called, sir.
Great to have you on Open Line Friday.
Hey, Russ.
Just wanted to tell you about an hour's worth of story in 30 seconds here.
I could write a book on this, how I basically came from just being a default liberal, like I like to say to people, just being awakening to the truth.
You were a default liberal.
Yeah, it's just something that you don't set out and say you're a liberal.
Just literally, you have three out of four networks that are liberal.
Yeah.
And you don't know better than a child.
I mean, literally, all they talk about is Rush Lumball is racist, he's sexist, he's this.
I mean, you get all this.
You're literally taught from day one from these networks.
Republicans are bad.
They're all greedy old white men.
But you don't even really think of yourself as a liberal.
You're just what's normal.
You're just what everybody else, these conservatives are a bunch of extremists.
But you're automatically lumped into the liberal category because they're going to grab anybody they want to.
Right.
You're just by default.
I equate a liberal to being colorblind.
And when one day you wake up and you're not colorblind, you realize you're really conservative.
You just didn't know it.
I was working in a union for a sheet metal worker for five years, went through the whole program.
And this union that was supposed to be protecting me, and this is how it all came to be about, was supposed to be protecting me.
They're supposed to be there for your rights.
Literally, a $20 an hour package is what they call it.
I'm supposed to be paid $20 an hour for each hour that I work for each job.
I literally never made a check working 40 hours over $400.
You can do the math on that.
So you got paid $10 an hour instead of the $20.
Exactly.
The union was getting everything.
They're a small form of government.
I got laid off three times.
Oh, you mean.
You mean you were paid the $20, but they deducted $10?
Yes.
Oh, and then the government took their tent or took their share out of the yeah, that's that's gross now.
That's before they get their share first, and then the government gets their share.
Wow.
So here, and the synopsis of my whole story is I literally was forced out of the union because of the lack of work.
And they're all government jobs, mind you.
That's the only reason, every job we ever worked on was schools, military.
Yeah.
Stuff I'm realizing now that I'm out on my own business.
I literally, after being laid off a third time, I told my wife, I said, I'm sick of it.
I don't want to be one of the statistics.
Let's just start my own business.
I figured cut grass because that's what I did in high school.
I literally had to get, I'm in Gainesville, Florida, I had to get six licenses to cut grass.
We literally sold our TVs, our computers, everything.
She literally hawked off a ring so I could buy $3,000 worth of equipment so I wouldn't be push-mowing a 20-acre lot.
And here we are, and that's how I started listening to talk radio, started listening to you.
And I didn't search you out.
You literally just happened to be the only station that will come in clear here on 97.3 of the Sky in Gainesville.
And that's how I started listening.
And I started listening, and I was literally listening with the aspect of, I'm going to catch how racist you are, how sexist you are, how this you are.
I started realizing you weren't saying anything that wasn't true.
I wasn't even a fan of yours.
I like to call myself just an average American.
That's not stupid.
Because a lot of people write off liberals are stupid.
I don't consider myself to be stupid.
I just consider myself to be colorblind.
And all of a sudden I wake up one day.
You see the whole picture because you're not colorblind anymore.
So that's where we're at now.
We've literally been seven months into starting my own business.
And let me make one other point here real quickly is poor people aren't paying to get their grass cut.
These greedy old white men that only run business, they've been the biggest encouragement to me.
They're the one, as a matter of fact, Rush.
I'm telling you this.
How long did it take you?
How long did it take you to figure that out, John, that poor people don't pay to get it?
Seven months.
The people who do manage to get somebody else to pay for their law enforcement, who are on government assistance, they're the hardest customers you can't please.
Liberals don't even get along with each other.
Half the liberals you talk to, they don't agree with homosexuality.
They don't agree with abortion.
It's all self-interest.
And what you realize is conservatism is about America's interest.
I'm just, I'm sorry, I'm in my 30s now, and I'm like a kid in a candy store.
I'm realizing I've been asleep at the wheel all my life, and I'm probably saying stuff that's redundant to y'all, but it's just amazing how many people are just asleep at the wheel because literally, if they didn't have the media on their side, these elections leaving me close.
Let me tell you something.
This is not redundant.
We love hearing these kinds of stories of self-realization.
We love hearing it.
You have, and your magic word there was truth.
That's what you stumbled across.
And it's opened a whole new world for you, it sounds like.
The government has been doing nothing.
It's been in spite of the government.
How's your landscaping business doing?
How old is it?
How long have you been doing it?
Seven months.
And I'm literally, I'm not joking.
I put one, we literally had to scrape up $75.
We sold, like I said, we sold everything we could sell and literally scratched up enough money to buy an ad in the newspaper, which you have to do, by the way, to get a license here.
And $75, I literally just put an ad, average law, and $25.
And that got the phone ringing.
And people, all they see is if you're willing to work, you show up on time, do what you say you're going to do.
You're not coming there with Pearsons all in you.
I mean, you just look like a trustworthy person.
And let me tell you, in spite of the government, in spite of everything I had to go through, literally within two months, I was making more than I was ever working and busting my tail.
Now, you know as well as I do, it's a 24-7 business.
Yeah.
Everybody always thinks you get to go on there.
Everybody who loves their job, it's basically 24-7 because it's not really work.
I mean, it is, it is, and you need to break from it now and then, but it's something you love or something you're committed to.
You don't look at it as 24-7.
It's just what it is.
You know, I would love, I'd love to be able to help you here.
I've got the usual stash here of iPads and computers.
I don't know how many of that would help you, but or if you'd just like to have one, I would love to give you a signature engraved iPad.
Absolutely.
I mean, you could sell that for a couple hundred bucks.
No, we actually, I used, actually, one of the investments I made in my third month in business was an iPhone to help my business out.
We literally got rid of our internet at the home and chose to do this because we're, I mean, we literally sold everything.
My wife literally had to get that back out of Hawk.
Well, you know, I'll tell you what, people love here because that's what you do.
You did what was necessary.
The government wasn't there.
You did what was.
So look, John, hang on here a minute.
Mr. Snardly will get the address and we'll send you an iPad.
He'll get the kind of color you want and all that kind of stuff from you.
But I'm really honored to have you in this audience.
You're a great way to get close to the end of the day here.
And we wish you all the best.
Stick with it, man.
I think John, he built his business, right?
He built it.
He built his landscaping business.
He called it cutting grass, but it's going to be landscaping before he knows it.
Catherine just sent me an email.
Folks, I am stunned disbelief here.
Kwasimohamed Rezwanul Ashan Nafis, the would-be Federal Reserve terrorist bomber entered the United States on a student visa in 2012 and attended Southeast Missouri State University in Cape Girardeau, Missouri.
This guy, this terrorist, would-be terrorist bomber went to the same college I did.
Same university I did.
No, he's not a tea party guy.
I don't know if he took ball rooms.
My alma mater, well, I didn't graduate, so I can't call it an alma mater.
Went to Southeast Missouri State University.
That's unbelievable.
My friends, that's it.
If you're in Gainesville, Florida, look for a guy's ad in the newspaper, Cut Your Grass.
His name is John.
I neglected to get the name of his company, but I'm pretty sure it'll be discovered fairly soon.
In the meantime, have a great weekend, and we'll be back at it on Monday.
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