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Oct. 29, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 29, 2012, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Yeah, I just see that Romney has, somebody just told me Romney's canceled a campaign event in Wisconsin because of the hurricane, but he's in Cleveland right now.
He's in Ohio at a campaign event right now.
And Obama's canceled Wisconsin.
Obama canceled Florida.
In fact, Obama flew to Florida last night.
This is the weirdest thing.
By the way, greetings, folks, great to have you, Rush Limbaugh, the EIB Network, and the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
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We were told this morning at a number of EIB affiliate radio stations along the East Coast, up in the Target area, for the hurricane and the Northeastern, these two things that are going to interact and create weather Armageddon.
A number of affiliates are going all local, and obviously some listeners of those stations might not know.
If you have friends who are in that area would like to listen to the program, but can't, you can always direct them to Rush24-7, rushlimbaugh.com, streaming opportunities and so forth.
We're going to be talking about all of this as the day unfolds and as the week unfolds.
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Now, Obama canceled an event in Orlando today.
Bill Clinton is sitting in for him or standing in.
But Obama flew down to Florida last night for this campaign event.
Now, everybody knew yesterday what they know today about the hurricane.
If you're going to go down to Florida and cancel your appearance and come back, why go?
It leads me to believe that somebody, some handler, said, look, Barack, you've got to get back to Washington.
So he canceled his Florida appearance.
He also canceled Wisconsin.
He also canceled Wisconsin before the Scott Walker recall vote.
And some people are trying to read some things into that.
But this morning, the regime has announced that they're canceling the Orlando event.
Clinton's sitting in and Obama's back in Washington.
If I was watching CNN, when Obama landed back in Washington, it was funny.
The motorcade leaving Air Force One on the highway, heading back into town, or over to where the helicopter is.
Maybe not using the copter, got to drive because of the weather.
And CNN, okay, everything's calm.
Everything's okay.
We can all relax.
Obama's back.
Barack's in the White House.
It's monitoring everything.
It's okay.
Everything's cool.
I also was watching TV this morning, and I saw some things.
I mean, I believe it, but I actually don't believe it at the same time.
We all know what the forecasters are saying about this storm, and we all know what the local officials are saying about it.
And it is being portrayed as Armageddon.
Stock market closed through Wednesday.
New York schools are closed.
They're worried about the New York subway system flooding.
I saw a photoshop of scuba divers in the New York subway system.
The warnings about power failures that will happen.
And it's going to last for days.
And there's nothing you can do about it.
There's another, I kid you not, a guy in Florida sending an email to a buddy of his in New Jersey warning, get out of there.
Get out now.
Even if the storm doesn't get you, there are going to be riots for food and gasoline in the aftermath.
Get out.
So these are the kind of expectations that have been set.
This is literal Armageddon.
We are having riots forecast by citizens to each other.
The weather service is forecasting record destruction, and the power companies are falling right in line, as are governors and mayors.
So the expectations are such that this is the worst thing that might have ever happened.
Except it hasn't happened yet.
It's the worst thing that will ever happen.
And then after it happens, the worst thing that has happened.
Now, my official climatologist, Dr. Roy Spencer, says this could be epic.
You have what was already going to be a nor'easter anyway.
Without this hurricane showing up, the hurricane showing up, you know, the warm subtropical air meeting with the nor'easter, the cold air mass in Canada, that's what's going to wreak the havoc when these two systems collide.
And that's when all of the predicted tumult and chaos and destruction is scheduled to take place.
So I want to track down this notion or this story that Romney has canceled a trip to Wisconsin because of the hurricane.
Wisconsin's not in the path, Wisconsin, but Obama has canceled it too.
Obama's not, he's hunkered down in the White House.
Oh, oh, what is going to tell you?
Folks, literally was watching MSNBC this morning and CNN, and there were Obama campaign aides on these network shows actually discussing how this storm could help Obama if they played it right.
Politicizing.
Now, I'm not surprised.
I know that because these people politicize everything, including the National Weather Service has been politicized.
Wait a few, I've never seen a warning like I saw last night from a New Jersey National Weather Service office.
I got it right.
It's coming up in just a second.
Setting the table here now.
They were literally discussing how this could help Obama.
It's a crisis that would allow Obama to look as though he's in command.
Obama in charge of the Federal Treasury.
Obama could make sure gasoline and food and whatever needs to be moved someplace gets moved immediately.
It was sick, folks.
It was sick.
There was also a Romney guy on with one of the Obamaites who say, you know, this thing is going to affect everybody.
It's not just Obama.
What about the people who live in this area where this storm is going to, why is the focus on how can this help Obama?
And then alternately, there were some Obamaites worrying about how it could hurt Obama.
Well, I can tell you that.
And if you want to know how this whole thing could hurt Obama, I'll be glad to tell you.
Very quickly, here we are in the last week.
Everybody thinks the regime has something to dump on Romney, October surprise or what have you.
But even if they don't, the last week is when all the forces were going to be marshaled and everything was going to be moved to the front page.
The lead story was going to be Obama being reelected, Romney not worth it.
That's not the lead story now.
In addition to that, the media executives and reporters who were going to lead the pro-Obama charge are themselves in harm's way.
The storm is not about those other people.
It's about that.
They're in the middle of it.
Their homes are targeted.
Their offices are in the way.
Their lives could be disrupted.
And therefore, that will become the big story, not Obama's reelection.
And it simply takes what was to be the big final push for the one off the top of the lead or of the front page.
Don't know how long this is going to go on, but if they were hoping, let's put it this way, if they were hoping at the media to establish major momentum for Obama this week, Mother Nature has just interceded and said, whoa.
In other words, for you atheists, and I play golf and there are golf gods, and you can do things that irritate the golf gods.
One of the things that you do to irritate the golf gods is to tell yourself you got the game figured out.
The minute you tell yourself you got the game figured out, the golf gods make sure that you screw up the next two rounds.
Well, the weather gods, the weather gods have interceded here.
They have intervened in this campaign and in this effort.
You've got major potential devastation and destruction in the media capitals of this country, Washington and New York.
And the residents and the occupants of these media organizations in Washington and New York are the ones who are going to be standing out in the street telling everybody else how bad it is.
Not how bad Romney is.
Not how dangerous Romney is, how dangerous the storm is.
And then when they have time, they're going to try to massage it and figure out a way they can make it look good for Obama.
Which is juvenile, infantile, sad, and disappointing because this storm is going to affect everybody.
And there isn't anything political about it until people try to make it political and look at who is.
Mr. Limboys, I looked into your theory.
Through it sound to me like you're the one that tried to politicize that storm.
No, no, no.
I was minding my own business here, Mr. New Castrati.
I was minding my own business doing show prep, and I saw the TV today, and I saw all the Obamaites out there actually talking with smiles on their faces how this storm, which is being portrayed as Armageddon, can help Obama.
Are you people?
You're not all there.
You people have become unhinged.
And to think that people watching these cable networks are in the path of this storm care whether or not it helps Obama when they're being told their house might go, trees might fall on power lines will be without power two or three days, the subway might flood.
And you think they're concerned about whether or not this helps Obama?
Keep talking.
Keep talking.
We've got political news.
I'm wondering if we ought to just suspend political discussion today in honor of the storm.
Well, Romney's not going to Wisconsin.
Obama came off the campaign trail.
That leaves me.
What if I'm the only guy out there campaigning?
Is that fair?
That's not fair to Obama.
Is it?
Actually, it is.
Anyway, he deserves it.
I'll tell you, we have some proof here.
Excuse me.
We have some proof here that, well, never mind, just scrolled out of view.
Let me take a brief timeout anyway.
We'll do that and come back and continue because we've got polling data out the wazoo today that is fast.
We have got, I don't know if you saw Judge Janine on Saturday night on Fox.
She had Tyrone Wood's father.
This Judge Janine's show Saturday night needs to be seen by everybody, by Benghazi.
Needs to be seen by everybody.
And I know that there are clips on YouTube from her show Saturday night, 9 o'clock on Fox.
Tyrone Wood's father, other family members, Pat Cadell literally almost started crying talking about the corruption that exists in the American media and how they are putting this country and democracy at risk by not doing their jobs.
So we have, we've got that.
We've got the fascinating, really fascinating polling.
I'll give you one example.
Gallup and Rasmussen have their party ID polls that came out yesterday, and they're almost identical.
And Gallup, just to talk about it, for Gallup 9,000 plus survey sample, 9,000 people, margin of error, plus or minus one point.
Now, the headline to Gallup's story is misleading as it can be.
The headline says, 2012 electorate looks just like 08, but it doesn't.
It's not even close in a way that no doubt has Axelrod and Pluff and Obama sweating tears.
Because while the demographics might look the same, party identification is totally different.
The Gallup poll, 2012 party ID, electoral turnout next week, Republicans plus one.
If that's true, well, I'm stopping right there.
Republicans plus one.
In 2008, it was Democrats plus eight.
Their headline says, 2012 electorate looks same as 2008.
It does not in the most key way.
So I'll explain that, analyze it.
Rasmussen has the same party ID, basically projecting vote turnout 2012 to be Republican plus one or plus two.
It's big, folks.
It's really big.
So sit tight.
We'll go through all of it.
That's why we're here for three hours.
Rushland Bob back after this.
Amberbach, El Rushball, and your guiding light here for a full week, another full exciting week of broadcast excellence.
Okay, if you need any proof that Romney is surging in the polls, all you have to do for, and we're going to walk you through these as the program unfolds today, just look at all the articles that are suddenly telling us the polls don't matter.
There's a story from Reuters.
Yeah, polls don't matter.
And by the way, today's not the first day we've been told this.
Last week and I think the week prior, we had certain Obama I'd say, well, don't pay any attention to polls.
Polls.
They're just too volatile.
And then Stephanie Cutter, you can't really trust that poll that shows the gender gaps coming.
Who do people are stupid?
You think, really, that Romney's polled even with Obama and women?
That can't be.
Then the Des Moines Register comes out, endorses Romney.
First newspaper endorsement for a Republican since 1972.
Stephanie Cutter, the Obama regime.
You can't believe that.
And then the other explanation.
You ready for this?
To explain the Des Moines Register endorsement of Romney.
Des Moines Register endorsement of Romney.
They said, well, if you look at that, I forget who it was, but it's some mainstream media person.
Look at the way that editorial is written.
It is clear that the owner and publisher of that paper went to the editorial board and said, we're endorsing Romney.
This is not what the editorial page really would want to do.
This is how they're explaining this away.
The actual editorial writers, they didn't write, if you can read the code, if you understand, I'm a journalist and I can read it and I can read between the lines.
And those people are telling us they were forced to endorse Romney by the publisher or by the owner.
And Stephanie Cutter's out there say, well, really, the newspaper endorsement, they don't influence anybody anymore.
Yeah, well, New York Times endorsed Obama on Sunday, and that's another.
You're all the big mo that does anybody really believe that a New York Times endorsement of Obama is going to matter anyway.
But a lot of people on the left side think so.
But what New York Times endorsement of Obama?
Because the storm has swept it aside.
Whatever momentum there was going to get, or going to be, from a New York Times endorsement of Obama, it's gone.
The story has been swept aside by the storm now.
And of course, do not discount, as I mentioned mere moments ago, the fact that the executives, the editors, the powers that be and all these media organizations, they live and work where this storm is hitting.
And remember, the world revolves around them now.
Always has, always does.
So this storm is going to take front and center.
And since the storm is going to take front and center, it's going to have to be spun as, okay, how can we spin this to help Obama?
I kid you not.
But whatever plans they had for a big kickoff today to help get Obama back on track have been buried by this and buried by this storm.
So the polls don't matter.
You know, an example of that is in Ohio.
There are a couple of polls.
Rasmussen has Romney at 50 points in Ohio, first time.
I think Rasmussen has Romney up two points in Ohio.
Polls are showing Romney either up to or tied in Ohio.
And we got this article from Reuters.
Analysis.
U.S. presidential race is all about Ohio.
Or is it?
And the story basically goes on to say that, you know what?
Ohio isn't that important after all.
Now think about what they were all just Friday.
Forget last week and the week before.
Just think back to Friday.
It was all Ohio.
All that mattered was Ohio.
Romney didn't win Ohio.
It was over.
And Obama was four points up.
And there was no way, no matter what happened, no matter how you sliced it, Romney was not gaining any ground in Ohio.
Now he's up two in Rasmussen, who is also being attacked now as a know-nothing hack who has no clue how to actually conduct polls.
So Reuters says that Ohio, it isn't that important.
It's really had too much emphasis placed on it.
It's not that big a deal.
Gas prices.
It's not a big deal.
Really, it's a new norm.
People have president can't create jobs.
You know, all these things that don't matter when Obama is in the White House.
So I have continued here to set the table.
There are details on all of these things I've alluded to.
I can't wait to fill you in on all of them.
Hey, we're back.
I want to grab a quick phone call, Alan, in Sarasota, Florida.
You happen to, I think, be discussing something I was going to get to fairly quickly, so I thought I'd get your call in and use you to transition to it.
What's up, sir?
Well, I'm very concerned that we all seem to want to cover the president and his situation room associated with the Hurricane Sandy.
But what planning, what preparation, what analysis did the president do prior to 9-11?
Why were not the issues raised by our ambassador addressed?
You know, there was not a photo op that day.
Every year, I would imagine the president should be sitting down prior to 9-11 and evaluating the risk to America, our home soil, our troops, our citizens of the world.
Well, look, he's the most sophisticated consumer of intel in the world.
He doesn't need to have meetings.
They've told us that he's the most sophisticated consumer.
Of course, I get your point.
Your point's right on the money.
And even if there wasn't such a strategy session or monitoring prior to 9-11, what happened after the Benghazi thing hit?
Folks, I have a whole stack on that today, too, as well as some of the sound bites from Janine Pirro's show on Fox Saturday night.
I'm sorry to keep talking about it instead of getting to it all.
I am going to get to it.
I've got some semblance of structure today that I want to try to get all this stuff in in ways that it makes sense.
But this is, you know, even the media are tweeting each other about whether or not Obama should have left Florida and gone back to Washington.
I kid you not, during the break, I was monitoring media tweets.
Mark Halpert at Time Magazine said, nobody's saying Obama shouldn't have gone back.
In other words, everybody agrees Obama should have left, even though it's a stark contrast.
He didn't bother to go to the situation room.
Well, actually, we think he did.
That's where this Benghazi thing gets even worse.
Some of the stuff on Benghazi is going to make you so mad.
I don't care how mad you are now.
It's going to make you even angrier.
But it's a great point that Alan makes in Sarasota, Florida.
So they're positioning and they're politicizing this.
Those Obama's in the White House.
What's he doing, by the way?
TheHill.com says that the Romney campaign has donated its bus to deliver supplies to storm relief centers today.
Mitt Romney's campaign bus, our campaign, has sent its bus to collect and distribute donated supplies for those in the path of Hurricane Sandy.
Meanwhile, Obama is in the White House doing, well, he's monitoring.
That's what he's monitoring.
Obama is monitoring.
He's monitoring in the White House.
Monitoring the situation.
He's under, he got in all our control.
He's in there monitoring things.
But the Romney campaign sent its bus out.
The media is scared to death, folks.
These polls have them alarmed like they haven't been.
They really bought this stuff.
They bought their own drivel.
They bought the stuff that they put in their own bubble.
They really believed Obama was a lock.
They didn't think anything could change it, including the debates.
Their world is now upside down.
They don't know what to make of anything that's happened.
They are just stymied.
Here's another Reuters story.
Hurricane forces Obama to balance governing and campaigning.
Oh, oh, poor president.
President Obama on Sunday faced the delicate task of balancing his regime's biggest storm response with his tough campaign for re-election as Hurricane Sandy bore down on the U.S. East Coast a little more than a week before Election Day.
Really?
Oh, so, so challenging.
Whoa, it's just so hard.
That's right.
Reuters are telling us right here, Obama's been forced to balance governing and campaigning, which to them is a news story.
They're very worried about this.
That's all this means.
They are terribly worried that all of this means that the big surge that they had planned for Obama this week and that Obama had planned has now been overwhelmed by the surge of Sandy.
AP, endorsements flood in, but do voters care?
Who reads newspapers anymore?
For all the energy spent winning and then advertising endorsements, they really make any difference?
No.
Short answer is no, said Jack Pitney, political scientist at Claremont McKenna College.
Now, all of a sudden, when all of these liberal newspapers are endorsing Romney, guess what?
They don't matter.
AP, endorsements flood in, but do voters care?
The polls, oh, Ohio, it isn't that important.
This is laughable.
It is really genuinely laughable to see how transparent these people in the media are and to think that they think they're pulling one over on us.
I imagine being them in their newsrooms, and they see that Romney's pulled ahead on Ohio by two or tied in the other polls.
And they say, you know what?
We'll put a story out said Ohio.
It's not that important.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, do that.
Oh, that's brilliant, Sam.
You put that story out.
Ohio doesn't.
And they run it.
And they think that their audience with the IQ of a pencil eraser is going to just mop it all up.
And then the Des Moines Register and a couple of other liberal papers endorse Romney.
You know what we better do?
We better get a story out that newspaper endorsements don't matter, that people don't even read newspapers anymore.
We know that because everywhere we work, we're losing money.
And so newspaper endorsements don't matter.
So they've got that story from the AP.
That's right.
Endorsements flood in.
Do voters care?
It's actually comical to watch all this and to take note of it.
And how idiotic they must think that we are.
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Quick timeout, I'll rush ball.
And a brand new week of broadcast excellence coming straight at you right after this.
I want to give you an idea just how big the panic in the drive-by media is.
There is a piece that goes out every day by Mike Allen at the Politico.
And it's the morning, whatever it is.
It's the summary of everything that has happened.
It's going to happen.
It's a Bible for many in the drive-bys.
And the headline from his version yesterday, Huge Romney Day rises in Ohio poll.
Des Moines register goes Republican, first time in 40 years.
1A of the Tampa Times may be over for Obama in Florida.
This, as far as these guys are concerned, is a far bigger disaster in their minds than any hurricane could be.
Playbook is the name of his piece.
And none of this was supposed to happen.
Last Monday, October 22nd, on this program, I said to you, what's the old conventional wisdom?
An incumbent that can't reach 50% is in trouble.
And you heard F. Chuck Todd say on Meet the Press yesterday, it's been two Sundays ago, eight days ago, F. Chuck Todd said on Meet the Press, well, yes, it's 47% for Obama in our poll today.
If this were a week before the election, I'd be really concerned, David, speaking to David Gregory.
So eight days ago, when Obama's at 47% and down three in the NBC Wall Street Journal poll, Gregory is on, or F. Chuck Todd is on Meet the Press.
He says, well, it's not good, but if it's this way a week from now, yeah, then we're going to be concerned.
Well, it's that way a week from now.
We now know that Obama's approval rating is down to 46%.
So I'm just wondering if F. Chuck Todd on MSNBC today followed through and has admitted that he's really now concerned.
Last week was a bad one for the regime.
According to Gallup's Daily Tracking Poll Obama's job approval rating dropped 7% in three days.
What do you think explains that?
Job approval down 7% in three days.
It went from 53% to 46% from October 23rd to October 26.
A 7% slide.
That's only happened for Obama once.
That was back in May of 2000, I don't know, it says 2001.
That can't possibly be the right date.
At any rate, it's only happened once before.
But what brings Obama's approval down?
Seven points in three days.
I think so.
I think it's Libya, which, by the way, there are no electoral votes there, which explains a lot.
But then I want to mention this again.
The Gallup poll that came out yesterday, this is the party ID poll.
It's an annual thing.
9,000 voters.
Margin of error, plus or minus 1%.
And again, the Gallup headline is 2012 U.S. electorate looks like 2008.
Now, if you read that headline, you'd be depressed.
The electorate looks the same.
Well, if it looks the same, well, we're sunk.
But then you read the details of the poll, you find out the electorate doesn't look the same.
It's dramatically different in terms of party identification, in terms of who is going to vote in this election.
In 2008, the Democrats had a plus 10 turnout advantage, 3929.
Gallup is projecting in this year's election, 36% of the electorate will be Republican, 35% Democrat.
That is a nine-point swing.
That is Obama losing nine points.
If this is right, this could be insurmountable for the one.
And it does not look like the electorate of 2008.
The electoral sample in 2004, the turnout was 39 Republican, 37 Democrat, and that was a Bush win over John Kerry, who, as you know, served in Vietnam.
So just to go through these numbers again, in 2004, 39 Republican, 37 Democrat turned out.
In 2008, 29 Republican, 39 Democrat turned out.
Go to Gallup.
This year, they are projecting 36 Republican, 35 Democrat.
That means that Republican Party identification is way up.
That means that Republican enthusiasm is way up.
That means the electorate this time around does not look like it did in 2008.
Then you couple that with Obama's job approval dropping seven points in three days.
And people scratching their heads and trying to figure out what that means.
Of course, yeah, the independents, if you go further and you look at Romney in every one of these polls, this is what has people so confused about Ohio.
In the internals, Romney is just cleaning up and he's up, depending on the poll, 15 to 19 to 23 points in independence.
The 23 is in the latest Rasmussen national poll, not Ohio.
In the Rasmussen, Ohio poll, Romney is up 15 in independence.
In the national Rasmussen poll, he's up 23.
So if you add the plus Republican turnout to the independents who have swung to Romney, you wonder, you look at the how does Obama end up tied or even up to or down to?
A lot of it doesn't make any sense.
But again, folks, remember the press, Reuters telling us today that polls don't mean Ohio doesn't matter anymore.
It's really too much emphasis has been placed on Ohio from the get-go.
Now that Romney's up two in the Rasmussen poll, Ohio's not that really that input.
It's amazing.
It is laughably amazing to watch these people maneuver in ways that they think they're fooling us.
It's comical and it's childish on their part.
Let's take another brief time out.
Sit tight.
Back with much more after this.
Okay, coming up in the next hour, ladies and gentlemen, some of the highlights from a Saturday night show on Fox.
Janine Pirro had the father of Tyrone Woods on.
There's something that has come up about Benghazi but Tyrone Woods that needs to be pointed out with a question asked about it.
And it's this: the consulate was being shelled by mortar fire.
Now, Tyrone Woods, Navy SEAL, violated three orders not to go.
And it's not correct to say, folks, that they were ordered to stand down.
That doesn't quite cut it.
Because what that really means is they were told not to go help.
They were told not to relieve the ambassador.
They were told not to offer assistance.
That's what they were told.
They weren't told not to stand down or told to stand down.
What that means is, sit tight and don't go there and don't help.
He violated orders.
He went over there.
He found where the mortar fire was coming from.
He painted it with his laser.
Now, folks, talk to anybody in the military.
There's only one reason you do that.
He was painting where that mortar fire was coming from because he figured there was air support that was then going to take that mortar location out.
That's why he was lasering it.
He was effectively lighting it up.
He thought there was air support.
He thought there was cover.
Because all he did was tell the terrorists at the mortar control place where he was.
They were able to find him.
And it was that mortar fire that killed him.
Now, why would he light it up?
Why would he paint it if there was no assistance?
He clearly thought there was.
This becomes more outrageous as the days go by and as we continue to learn more and more about it.
And we've got lots of stuff coming up.
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