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Oct. 30, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 30, 2012, Tuesday, Hour #3
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The views expressed by the host on this program are right.
You can count on it.
And don't doubt me.
And everything's easy.
If you just, if you just commit to that, just commit to it.
What you hear me say is right and go from there.
And it's amazing how your life will change.
It's amazing how easy it will be to understand things if you just accept that I'm right and don't doubt me.
Ha.
How are you?
800-282-2882 is the number.
If you want to be on the program, the email address LRushmo at EIBnet.com.
When I was, what was it, two years ago or three, Snerdly, when I had that fake, that faux heart attack thing in Hawaii, was it two or three years ago?
Almost three.
It'll be three.
No, it'll be, well, whatever it was.
I was in Hawaii.
What had happened was I'd had a spinal epidural for a cervical problem on Oahu.
And I got on a plane and I went over to the big guy and I played golf.
I had the spinal epidural at 8 o'clock.
At 8.30, I'm out of there.
I'm on the way over to Big Guy and play golf.
Consuming adult beverages with January 3rd, 2010.
Okay.
So I'm up there with a, no, it was December because I know I spent New Year's Eve in the hospital.
Obama was there.
We were sweating out he was going to show up.
At any rate, so I went over there.
I had the spinal lepidural and I'm consuming adult beverages, playing golf with the golf buddies.
The golf gods get me.
And I all day long come back and the next, I mean, I am just dog tired.
And I get back and get up next day.
And noon the next day, I got chest pains going, oh, I'm having a heart attack at the hospital.
It ended up on the news all over it and remembered.
It turns out it did everything.
There was no blockage.
It wasn't a heart attack.
It was just a, I don't know what it was, but it wasn't that.
It was a, obviously concluded it was a reaction to the spinal epidural and the adult beverages and the full day's activity playing golf and the partying afterwards.
Anyway, ever since then, I have been looking for an emergency SOS button type thing to have with me at all times because I can't hear.
I can't hear alarms.
So I've been looking to have something that could have with me at all times in case, because once something like that happens to you, in this case, it wasn't a heart attack at all, but still, it was scary.
And I happened to be reading after Steve Jobs' death, I happened to be reading a book by a guy who Steve Jobs had hired at Apple.
His name was Jay Elliott.
And a lot of people were writing about the lessons they had learned working for Steve Jobs.
Elliott's got a new book out called Leading Apple with Steve Jobs, Management Lessons from a Controversial Genius.
Anyway, the first thing I read by Jay Elliott, he mentioned that he had started an app.
It's a little side business that created an app that was an emergency medical notification app.
It's called V.S.O.S.
And so I went, I downloaded it from the App Store.
Thankfully, I've never had to use it, but it really is the most amazing thing.
It knows exactly where you are via GPS.
I mean, the address.
And what you do in this app, you fill out the names of five people you want notified when something happens.
Your doctor, all of his contact data.
Put anything that you would want anybody in your close circle to know if an emergency happened.
And then all you've got to do, this app, I'll show I've got a picture of it here.
I'll hold it up in the ditto cam.
You can see that bright red SOS button.
That's what the app looks like on your iPhone.
You hit that button, and two things happen: local EMS is notified, and then some big outfit nationwide also is notified, and they work with the local people, and they are at you within two or three minutes.
Now, I've never hit the button.
You press the button for three seconds to send an SOS, and bamo, they show up.
And I've been talking to these guys.
I want to get a demo on the button, and they're going to set that up.
They'll set up to show you what'll happen, just to prove to you that it works, which I haven't had time to.
I told them I'll do this after the election.
But they want to set all you guys up with the app.
They want to set everybody here on the staff up.
I haven't pursued that with them yet, but they're really great people.
They're out of San Francisco, I think, Bay Area somewhere.
And it's highly, no, no, snerdly.
It's not the clapper.
Don't say that.
It's not, no, no, no, no.
Is it like the little old lady in the TV ad in the wheelchair?
No.
This is pure high-tech.
If you hit that button, your local EMS people, I mean, it's all worked out.
All these people are signatories to the plan.
And wherever you go, it knows where you are.
And if you ever have to hit it, there are testimonials on how well it works.
V.SOS.
I just wanted to mention it to you because I believe in the private sector and all of the innovation that takes place and all of the great minds that exist in this country that meet needs, meet the needs and the desires of people at the same time.
No, Jay Elliott is the guy's name, former senior VP of Apple.
And they just casually mentioned this in the book.
It didn't make a big deal.
I wasn't even selling it really.
I just was intrigued by it because of that incident that had happened in Hawaii.
And they sent me a note.
I mean, well, whole companies are signing up for that.
Construction companies, for example, are outfitting all their employees with this app.
It's one of these things you hope you never have to use, but that you have full confidence if you do.
It's the fastest way.
But the great thing about it is that once you hit that button, your doctor gets called.
Everybody in your family that you want to know or friends, whatever it takes to make sure that you're treated and taken care of quickly are notified at the same time, instantly.
Anyway, we have, ladies and gentlemen, remember that song we played yesterday with the kids singing about life in America.
Should Romney be re-elected?
I made a big deal out of this only for the reason, like what I said here at the top of the program.
If you just don't doubt me, so I have no reason to lie to you.
None whatsoever.
I am not possessed with an insatiable ego.
I don't run around wondering who's thinking about me.
Never crosses my mind.
I've got nothing to gain by lying.
And I have all these people that have called here during this election season who have said, you know, I really like your show.
I just found you two months ago, three months ago.
And I used to believe everything in the media about you.
And I've always wanted, I asked people why.
Everybody knows the media lies or makes things up.
Some people don't, I guess.
Some people treat it as gospel.
But the people who tune in here out of curiosity find out that all this rigmarole isn't true.
Yesterday we're playing this video, and a lot of people will hear this, and they'll chuckle at it and then forget about it.
And to me, it's very useful in terms of informing and educating people because this ad is put together by hardcore Democrats at a real Democrat advertising agency, and they produce ads for Obama and other Democrat candidates.
And I've always believed that people just, if they would just accept and understand liberalism and who liberals are, and once you see a liberal, that's all you need to know about them.
You at least know that you should never vote for one.
Well, that's pretty extreme.
No, it's not extreme.
It may be extreme based on your starting point, but we've had four years of it here.
Detroit's had how many years of it.
New Orleans has had how many years of it.
No matter where you want to go, where liberals have run things uncontrolled and unchecked, what do you have?
Unmitigated disaster.
You have rising poverty, rising crime, rising single parenthood, rising abortion.
I mean, you've got cultural rot wherever liberals run the show.
The last four years, what have we got here?
We've got one in six in poverty.
We've got 23 million Americans not working.
We've got the American workforce that has been reduced profoundly.
I mean, the labor force participation rate is way down per family capita income or family mean family income is down almost $5,000 a year.
And the first two, we've got Obamacare.
We've got the government's taking over health care.
We've got, and I submit to you, the vast majority of American people know it.
And it's why the polling data looks like it looks.
But liberalism means something.
It has specific meanings and it has specific definitions, just as conservatism does and just as conservatives do.
Now, we conservatives are lied about all the time because we're considered a threat.
We do not lie about liberals.
The liberals like to say, for example, especially if you're new to the program, liberals like to say that, well, you can't listen to Limbaugh or watch Fox.
You just get one point of view.
No.
In every instance, practically every instance, I explain liberalism on this program in a more honest way than the liberals do as a means of blowing it away.
I set it up as a means of arguing against it.
I may not have liberal guests on this program, but liberalism is all over this program in an educational, informative way.
So we've got this video with these kids singing this song.
And to the casual observer, it just sounds crazy.
Who could possibly think this?
And see, that's the point.
They do.
This is who they are.
You would never vote for a candidate that said this is what he believes and this is what he supports.
You would never do it.
That's why liberals are always trying to mask and camouflage themselves at election time.
I have to take a brief time out.
We'll come out and play the song again because Bob Beckel on Fox was defending it, which, of course, I want you to hear.
But it's in real terms, it's not hard to understand what liberals are.
The tough part is accepting it.
Because some of it sounds just impossible to believe.
And you wouldn't want to believe that there are Americans who really think this stuff and believe this way.
But Benghazi happened for a reason.
There are hard, cold, calculated reasons why four Americans are dead.
There is an ideological component to it.
It's not just incompetence.
It's not just they didn't know what they were doing or they couldn't make up their mind or couldn't make a decision.
There's actual philosophy, ideological belief behind it.
And one of the things that liberals believe, particularly when it comes to foreign policy, is that if something happens to this country like 9-11, we had to do something to cause it.
America is always to blame.
That's why the video was blamed for two weeks.
That's why the filmmaker was blazing.
It's got to be America's fault.
Particularly, we've elected Obama, the one, the Messiah.
I mean, the world was going to love us.
So it can't be that they don't like Obama.
Got to love Obama.
And they believe this.
So it's going to be America's fault.
That's their belief.
It can't be that there is inherent evil in the world.
If there is inherent evil, we are to blame for it.
America is.
They do believe that.
So we'll take a break.
We'll come out.
Play this thing again.
You can hear it the second day in a row and listen to it within that context.
Okay, last night on the five on the Fox News channel, Greg Guttfeld was hosting, and he spoke with Bob Beckel about the Future Children Project ad that has these little young crumb crunchers singing and blaming their parents for all that's wrong.
Now, you need to see these kids.
They're well-fed.
They've all got glasses if they need them.
They're well-dressed.
They've got braces.
They haven't been denied anything.
Their lives are not miserable.
But you listen to the song that they sing, the lyrics they've been given, and how all this misery that's coming is their parents' fault and so forth.
So Guttfeld says, Bob, you love the ad.
You actually like that ad?
I loved it.
I thought it was exactly right on the money.
I think it's a way to appeal to it's exactly right that there is a consequence of putting somebody like Mitt Romney in the White House.
And those consequences, we don't know what this guy's about because he never says what he means and means what he says.
If you have Republicans in charge of the House and in the White House, there's going to be some dangerous policy that's going to be inflicted on American people.
Okay, so here's Beckel defending what you're about to hear.
Romney, therefore, is going to be responsible for what you hear in this ad.
He said, yes, it's exactly right on.
If you have Republicans in charge of the House in the White House, there's going to be some dangerous policy.
Now, they believe this.
They're not just trying to scare people to get votes, which they're doing, but they also really believe this.
Imagine an America, where strip mines are fun and free.
Work days can be fixed, and sick people just die.
And oil fills the sea.
We don't have to pay for free waste.
Our schools are good enough.
Give us endless wars on foreign shores and lots of Chinese stuff.
We're the children of the future.
American through and through.
But something happened to our country.
And we're kind of blaming you.
We haven't killed all the polar bears, but it's not for lack of trying.
The earth is cracked, Greenbird is sacked, and the atmosphere is flying.
Congress went home early.
They did their best, we know.
You can't cut spending with election spending, unless it's welfare no.
We're the children of the future, American through and through.
But something happened to our country, and we're kind of blaming you.
Find a park that is open to take a breath of poison air.
Then you closed your place to fill the weapon in space, but you can write off your own hair.
It's a little awkward to tell you, but you left us holding the bag.
When we look around, the place is all done down, and the long term's kind of a drag.
We're the children of the future.
American through and through.
But something happened to our country.
And yeah, we're blaming you.
You did your best.
You got the test.
Mom and dad were blaming you.
There you have it.
The Future Children Project.
That's an Obama campaign ad run on the web, and the Democrats are out defending it.
That's what we're going to get with Romney.
Putting words in their kids' mouth, and they believe that.
Oceans filled with oil.
People get sick and they just die.
What?
Republicans want to kill people?
They like oil polluting the oceans.
Republicans tolerate rotten schools.
Who's running all this stuff now?
Who's been running this country for the last four years?
If you're unhappy with the way the country is right now, believe me, the Republicans have not had one thing to say about it.
Especially the first two years, Republicans didn't have the votes anywhere to stop anything.
They got these four years that have gone by, and what do the Democrats say?
Well, it wasn't those four years, it's the previous ten.
Well, the previous eight, Bush years, Bush did all this.
And Bill Clinton addressed it at the Democratic Convention.
That's right.
I'm going to tell you people something.
It was so bad, it was worse than anything anybody ever knew, anybody ever seen.
I'm going to just tell you, there's not a president alive, not even me, who could have fixed this.
Not in this short period of time.
Barack couldn't have done it.
I couldn't have done it.
If I couldn't do it, nobody could have done it.
That's what you know.
So these four years, now Obama's running as a challenger.
He's not even the incumbent.
Republicans have done all this stuff.
But this, anyway, is what they believe.
And the point is, once you accept that, once you just Trust me.
Just believe what I tell you.
Your world opens up.
A clear understanding on everything takes place.
All my staff, it's happened to them, their lives are wonderful.
They'll even tell you.
Anyway, a brief timeout, my friends.
We got more.
Your phone calls are coming up.
No, I just, liberalism is what it is.
And liberals are who they are.
When you come to grips with that, everything else becomes easy.
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Okay, Atlanta.
Robert, I'm glad you called, sir.
Thank you for waiting.
Hi.
Well, thanks for letting me have a few minutes with you, Rush.
It's a real honor, just like your other two previous callers said.
And I'm probably not one of your typical listeners.
However, I listened to you many years ago when I lived in New Orleans down on WWL.
And that's when I started to make my conversion.
And I started to quit drinking from the Kool-Aid.
I am an American first, and I'm also gay.
And it was not up until the last presidential election that I decided I've had enough.
Absolutely had enough.
Meaning you did or did not vote for Obama?
I did not.
You did not?
Okay.
I voted for McCain, and I was, believe it or not, an ardent supporter of Palin.
I loved what she had to say, and I loved her enthusiasm.
And four years of this current president have proven everything that people like yourself and conservative talk radio have said.
But wait a minute.
You said that you're gay, and this guy is for gay marriage.
He's casting his, he's got, you know, the gay political apparatus in Hollywood's very, very active, and they're all behind Obama.
Yes, so what?
So what?
They don't speak for me, and I'm not a single-issue voter either.
And if that's like me saying, okay, I'm going to vote for a gay candidate simply because they're gay.
Well, if that's all I can base my vote on, you know, God help me and God help the rest of the country.
It's the same thing with the black vote for Obama.
If this is all they can do is vote for this man simply because he looks like them.
I was a code enforcement officer for a couple of years in West Atlanta, the first two years of Obama's presidency, in fact.
Nothing in that area of town has changed culturally, economically, to benefit any of those people, and yet they are ardent supporters of this president.
Well, you know, it's interesting you say that because I have a story from Breitbart from yesterday, and I'll get to it after your call, but the headline is Exodus inner-city blacks fleeing Obama and Democrats.
Now, we hear this every four years, and then the election comes, and we find it's the usual 90 to 95 percent who vote for Obama.
I need to go back, though.
I need to ask you a question because it dovetails with what I've been talking about.
The media and the Democrat Party have successfully, well, except with you and probably some others, have said the gay community, Republicans are the worst thing for you.
Like that kid song.
The Republicans are going to try to fix you.
Now, why don't you believe it?
And they do.
Yeah, that song is nauseating.
And I just hope that, like me, eventually when these kids grow up and they really become informed, and that's a real key issue there.
You've got to inform yourself.
And if you really don't look at the issues, I'm a self-employed real estate appraiser here.
The policies of this administration and the Democrats overall have impacted my work and my livelihood negatively, especially with the implementation of Dodd-Frank.
And again, I want to see everybody in this country prosper.
And I'll be honest with you.
You know, I support gay marriage.
I have a decent, honorable life.
I love my parents.
I've been past president of my neighborhood association here in the liberal bastion area of Southeast Atlanta.
I've done a lot, but I want to see everybody do well, not just me, and not just because of one thing that really, you know, is sort of sensitive to my life.
You are singing from my hymnal.
I mean, that is me.
A great country, everybody must prosper.
At least have the chance to, to apply whatever talent and ambition they want to it.
We want everybody to do well.
Real quickly, you know, Obama said, look, if I can't do this in four years, then vote me out.
Well, now, what has he done in four years for crying out loud?
What has he done that he can really go in front of a group of people and say, other than, oh, he got bin Laden?
Well, no, he didn't.
He got out of the way so that his leaders could tell the SEALs on the ground, go ahead and do what needs to be done here.
No, that's true.
But he is trying to make people think that he actually pulled the trigger.
He really wants.
But you've just nailed it.
Like, they're back to Bain Capitol Day.
Obama doesn't have one thing in the last four years he can tout.
There's nothing in his record that he can go out and say, you want more of that?
And people go, yeah.
If he goes out and say, you want more of that?
The answer is across the board, no.
Well, I'm glad you called, Robert.
Thanks very much.
I appreciate it.
Here, by the way, this story, Breitbart from yesterday, after his meteoric ascent to the top of the American political arena in the country's history, we are now in the midst of witnessing one of the most stunning collapses of any man ever to hold the office of the presidency.
Over the past few weeks, we've begun to see the ultimate unraveling of support for the president with women and utes fleeing from his side.
But what, and by the way, the gender gap doesn't exist anymore for all that money and effort and a war on women, women and are 50-50 Romney and Obama.
Obama does not have anymore a majority of women.
That's the latest polling data.
But what is even more surprising and perhaps unimaginable to the president, it says here, is that he is now also losing members of the normally deemed untouchable base of support, poor inner-city black Americans, the community-organized voting block on Chicago's south and west sides that many say he has long since abandoned.
Now, folks, this is a shocking story to read.
And we hear it every four years, and it never happens.
I've been doing this 25 years.
Every presidential election, we get this story: blacks fleeing the Democrat candidate.
They're getting it now.
Blacks fleeing the black Democrat candidate.
There's a quote from a Southside Chicago community activist here, Mark Carter: Our issues have not been met on, have not been adhered to, and it's almost as if they are just saying, even though no one's addressed your issues, just go with them anyway.
We're saying no.
Now, I will say, this is not the first such article I've seen about black populations in Chicago being fed up with Obama.
I've seen two or three, and not just black inner city urbans, but educated, middle-class, upper-middle-class, elite blacks fed up with Obama.
Pastors, preachers fed up with Obama on gay marriage.
Who knows?
But this is a story on Breitbart about black Chicago community organizers, inner city, who are fed up because he hasn't done anything for them.
And it's, well, it is, it is that he hasn't done anything for them.
But it's also that it's as though he hadn't even been president.
You have to look at it from their expectations.
Okay, you get the first black president ever.
Many thought that that meant specific things redounding to them.
Not only has that not happened, what they're also saying in this story is it's as though he doesn't even see us here.
He's not one of us.
It's all back to the Democrat stories, liberal media stories sometimes that we saw in 08 about whether or not he's authentic, such as that black or Magic Negro column that was in the L.A. Times and the debates that were raging among the civil rights groups.
Is he down for the struggle or not?
So I don't know whether there's anything to it or not, but I've seen three or four of these stories.
And the reason why people pay attention to it is if it ever does really happen, if there ever is, what would you think?
5% would be all that it would take for the you okay, so it'd have to be 8% to 10%, an 8% to 10% abandonment, blacks for the Democrat candidate, and they'd be done.
The Democrat Party would be done if there's ever an 8% to 10% switch.
And that's why people pay attention to it.
It never happens.
In 25 years, it hasn't happened.
We've had phone calls here from black people.
I'm never voting for Obama, and I know a lot of people aren't, but it never manifests itself on election day.
We'll see on this one.
But as I said, this is not the only one I've seen.
I've seen a bunch of, and the ones I've seen are all oriented in Chicago, to boot.
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Here is Cassie in Midland, Michigan.
Welcome to the EIB Network.
Hi.
Hello, Rush.
It's quite an honor.
And oh my gosh, I can't believe I got through.
But here's something unimaginable for you.
I'm a woman.
I'm a Latina.
And I'm a Republican, a proud, proud Republican.
And I'm also a combination welder and a combination pipe welder and a pipe fitter.
And I'm also a certified weld inspector through the American Welder Society.
And I'm also an API authorized inspector.
You are one hot mama.
You are one wise Latina.
Yes, sir.
And this war on women crap, I tell you, the war on women is all Obama.
How embarrassing.
You know, gee, he stands for everything that I fight for every single day because I want to be known as an individual, a strong woman, not just a big vagina walking into the job and expecting everything.
You know, how embarrassing he goes against.
I couldn't agree with you.
If I were a walking testicle, I would be, if some guy appealed to me that way, I'd be in something like you can't believe.
I totally understand.
I'm glad to hear it, too.
You know, speaking of the war on women, who was it that prevented us from having the first female president in this country?
Barack Obama and the Democrat Party.
Heck, even us, even we here at the EIB network, we're trying to pull for Hillary out there.
War on women, go talk to Obama about it.
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