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Nov. 1, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 1, 2012, Thursday, Hour #3
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Yeah, here's what we're going to do.
10 through 13, I'm going to skip this stupid global warming stuff.
I just don't want to hear Al Gore Michael Moore.
I just, I just, they're just idiots.
I just don't want to listen to them.
Lie through their teeth.
Global warming in the storm.
I've got a bigger question.
If power is going to be out in New York till November 11th, how do people vote?
I'm serious.
Generators in some of the schools.
Okay, so we'll go to 10 through 13 and pick up at 19, Mike.
Greetings, folks, and welcome back.
Why didn't you do that during the break rush?
Why are you taking up valuable programs?
Because I didn't think of it then.
Okay?
800-282-2882.
If you want to be on the program, the email address, lrushbo at eibnet.com.
I have a story here from, this is the news article at Google News.
Honest headline.
Ready for this?
Obama lauds bipartisanship, attacks Ronne.
Honest at Google News.
Obama lauds bipartisanship attacks Romney.
And it's USA Today.
And there's no, they missed it.
They don't, no irony.
Okay.
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If you want to be at the program, the email address, lrushboateibnet.com.
Audio soundbites.
Let's just do this.
I'm not going to play any of Christie and Menende.
Oh, have you heard about the Menende?
This is this not great.
I haven't even read it.
All I know is it's Menendez.
So fill me in in the blanks.
Bob Menendez, Democrat senator, New Jersey, apparently went down to the Caribbean, some big donor.
Do we know the name of the donor?
You haven't looked at the story either, so why am I asking you?
But do you know who the donor is?
All right.
Anyway, it goes down into orgies.
A Menendez donor in the Caribbean, New Jersey Senator Democrat Bob Menendez, going down and having orgies at the home of the donor in the Caribbean.
The source for the story is the hookers.
The hookers are mad because they haven't been paid.
Menendez is saying you can't trust hookers.
Well, ask Elliot Spitzer whether you can trust the hookers or not.
What?
The hookers were charging $500 and he gave them $100?
Is that what you said?
That's what you saw.
Okay, so he was jipping them.
He was cheating them.
They had a $500 rate and he was giving them $100.
So they didn't get paid.
That's the real.
Everybody knows, my gosh, pay the hooker.
That's the last thing you do is not pay the hooker.
Well, anyway, so it's a, yeah, how about this war on women stuff?
Here you got another prominent Democrat senator engagement.
Orgies with hookers.
And you know, people are ho-humming it today.
It's no big deal.
It would be if it were a Republican.
Anyway, did I say somebody?
What we have here is a montage.
State-run media.
They're all excited.
They're all excited here, folks, because Obama looked presidential with Chris Christie.
When I saw President Obama with Governor Chris Christie, I thought he looked really presidential.
It was a great moment.
President Obama has done with this hurricane.
Is that presidential?
Obama is looking more and more presidential as this crisis unfolds.
He's been presidential in handling of this crisis in New Jersey.
Barack Obama did himself a lot of good.
He showed Barack Obama as a commander-in-chief.
Which were seen as Barack Obama's commander-in-chief talking to the Red Cross, working with the Army Corps of Engineers.
You know, he does his job for a couple days, and everybody is all excited.
He looks presidential.
What did he look like on Tuesday?
What did he look like Monday?
Do these people not know what they are admitting?
It's like our old buddy Jonah Goldberg at National Review said the irony is exquisite.
Obama does his job for a couple days.
Everybody yells game changer.
Game change what?
Thought he's winning.
What game does he need to change?
These people are admitting that Obama is in trouble.
They are admitting that Obama is not looking good.
They are admitting that Obama is falling down to the job.
They're admitting all of that.
When they go get all excited how presidential he looked, that's his job.
What is he supposed to be looking like every day?
Yeah, I'll repeat it.
I had a pretty good point in the first hour about all this that I'll get to in due course before the hour.
Well, very simply, it's this.
Obama goes out there and he's with Christie and he promises everybody that he's going to waive all the red tape.
And he's going to make sure that the phones at the bureaucracy are answered in 15 minutes.
He said, I'm going to call him up on to make sure that it works.
Thereby admitting that the big problem here is the government.
And what does he want to do?
He wants to make it bigger.
He wants to have more regulation.
Barack Obama admitted that in order to get efficient help in rebuilding the damage to the hurricane, the Nor'easter, they've got to get government out of the way.
That's what he admitted.
And then the second thing, that's what Romney wants to do.
That's what Romney's campaign is.
That's what we conservatives want to do.
We want to make government more efficient, get it out of people's lives when it isn't necessary, stop all these regulations that just create bottlenecks and inefficiency all over the place.
That's what Romney wants to do.
What does Obama say?
Obama says, well, that's going to take us back to the policies that got us into trouble in the first place.
No.
Obama is really stepping in it with this, and so is the media.
Now, to me, he's stepping in it.
I don't know how many other people see it this way.
And if you didn't see it this way, you now do, since I'm pointing it out to you.
I don't know how many other people did.
I don't imagine many people saw this the way I just reported it on the Romney stuff, but I don't know how you argue otherwise.
Christie and Obama both essentially said they're going to get government out of people's way.
Meaning government is in the way.
Christie said he asked Obama to waive all the federal formulations for gasoline in New Jersey to get any gasoline at all in there.
California does this whenever there's a crisis.
What does it ultimately mean?
It means government is in the way.
Government makes things harder.
Government stands in the way of things getting done.
Obama promised to get government out of the way.
And what does he stand for?
More of it, bigger.
Obama's nailing his own coffin with these comments.
So is Christie, if you ask me.
And then to go out and say that the guy who wants to do that all the time, I mean, if getting the government out of the way will help in the aftermath of this, why wouldn't it help every day?
It would.
Streamlining government, making it smaller, getting it out of people's way would help every day.
But we're only going to do it in a crisis.
We're only going to do it in an emergency.
I think these guys are hammering coffins, nails in their coffins.
And I actually think the Romney campaign looks at turnout election now, as opposed to mass changing of minds, mass persuasion.
I really think if Romney ought to make a point of this, you ought to go and say, Obama and Christie both are talking about getting government out of the way to speed the recovery process.
That's what I want to do every day.
That's what my campaign's all about.
I'd make them eat their own words.
But that, ladies and gentlemen, just me.
Next soundbite, who is it?
Albert Hunt, formerly the Wall Street Journal.
Now worsey.
Bloomberg Television Street Smart during the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy.
They're on some show.
Yes, it's Street Smart.
And Adam Johnson, the co-host, said to Al Hunt, I want to get your take on the partnership here of Obama and Christie.
I couldn't help but think back to seven years ago, New Orleans.
Compare George W. Bush and Barack Obama today.
Or compare Kathleen Blanco and Chris Christie today.
Or compare Brownie.
Remember the infamous FEMA head who was a horse trainer.
The contrast is striking.
It's unfair because it was easier to do this today than it was back during Katrina.
But nevertheless, what they did today, all those men was exactly what they should be doing, and they did it very well.
And it's going to help them all politically.
You know, this business, this post-Katrina stuff is being lied about.
The military was on the scene immediately.
Anybody remember General Honoré?
He was a big hero.
He was on site.
Who was piloting the choppers to rescue people?
It was the National Guard.
It was the military.
People were down there.
Al Hunt wants to make it look like this whole region is getting back to normal real fast.
Go over to Queens.
Go to Brooklyn.
Go to Lower Manhattan.
Go to Hoboken.
Hell, go to where Christie and Obama were.
Nothing's getting any better yet.
It's unrealistic to think that it would.
What?
Just because Christie and Obama walked the soil, all of a sudden it's better there?
Not to the people who live there.
This is all such a crock.
I can't help but compare this to New Orleans.
What's different?
Somebody tell me, what is different?
Well, no, I want to know what's different.
Obama went to Atlantic City.
Bush didn't go.
He flew.
What's different?
Kathleen Blanco and Ray Nagan let the buses drown and I've seen taxi cabs drowning in New Jersey.
Stuck on stupid was I don't know what's different.
I do not know what's different.
The only thing different is that the residents of New York are not moving to Houston.
The residents of New Orleans got out of there, made tracks for Houston in Texas.
We don't have Shep Smith on the top of the superdome crying or Anderson Cooper that out there.
Where's Obama?
Where's Obama?
We don't have any of that going on.
Yeah, where are the claims of rape and child abuse that were rampant during Katrina that we learned later never happened?
And yet we do have looting going on in New York and wolf packs.
What's different?
I am, no, I am mad about it.
We got pictures of the loot.
I am mad about this.
This business about Katrina has been one of these media myths, and Democrat Party myths has been allowed to stick.
There is nothing that has been done in New York area now that was not done within the same timeframe in Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans.
So these people, Al Hunt and the rest of these people are just, what's different?
The optics?
How are the optics helping people?
Well, Obama cares.
Okay, how's that helping people?
Obama says he's going to get the government out of the way.
Is it?
Is gasoline rolling into New Jersey or are there still big lines in New Jersey?
Big gas lines in New York?
Where is all this relief?
Where does it materialize?
No, I'm not being critical of what's happening now.
I'm strictly talking about media people and painting pictures that are not true.
There's no magic taking place in the Northeast right now.
There's no magic relief taking place.
There are no houses being rebuilt.
Flood waters haven't been pumped out of homes in Queens and Brooklyn or wherever.
It hasn't happened yet.
The power is still not on a lower Manhattan and it's not going to go back on until November 11th.
And no matter how many trips Obama takes in there, no matter how many beaches he walks with Christie, it ain't going to happen.
What's different?
This is why I detest at times these people in the media trying to draw these favorable comparisons to Democrat politicians and Republican politicians when nothing is different.
When the focus ought to be on the people, you know, all this, how does this help Christie?
How does this help Obama?
Who cares?
I have a friend who lost his house.
And I care, he doesn't care how any of this is impacting Obama or Christie.
What does it matter, Al Hunt?
You ought to be ashamed of yourself.
I couldn't help but think back to seven years ago in New Orleans.
Are you thinking about, you're supposed to be a big liberal with lots of compassion.
Are you not thinking about the people who are suffering?
Because nothing's happening yet.
It'd be unrealistic to expect that it would be by now.
In fact, here is the Hoboken mayor, Hoboken, New Jersey.
By the way, is where Tebow lives.
Oh, wait a minute.
I know Eli Manning lives there.
I don't know about Tebow.
Tebow might live where Sanchez lives on the golf club.
I don't know.
Anyway, Eli Manning's building is flooded.
The lobby, he doesn't live in the lobby.
He lives in the penthouse.
But the lobby of Eli Manning's building is flooded.
Here's the mayor of Hoboken, Dawn Zimmer.
We are still very much in the crisis mode, continuing that floodwaters have not completely receded.
People are still stranded in their homes.
And so we are putting out a call for additional resources that we need.
One thing that we truly need, we need more fuel.
So we're reaching out to agencies to see if we can get more fuel so that we can make sure that the National Guard can continue to operate, that our police department and our fire department can operate so that we can keep our communities safe.
Okay, you heard her, President Obama.
Get some solar panels in there.
She said they need fuel.
Get some solar panels in there.
Get the people building windmills now.
They need some fuel in there.
Wait a minute.
Here's the mayor of Hoboken.
People still stranded in their homes.
I thought the president and Governor Christie were dealing with this yesterday.
No, I'm not criticizing the governor and the president.
I'm commenting on the media painting a picture that they're getting all this work done and all this progress is taking place, and it isn't.
They're painting this picture purely electoral politics here, nothing more than that, politicizing a disaster, and I'm simply reacting to it.
Here's the mayor of Hoboken.
She's getting nothing.
And everybody talk about how presidential Obama looks.
Everybody's talking about what a game changer for Obama looks presidential.
Tell that to the mayor of Hoboken.
What good is it doing her?
And here, speaking of which, Anderson Cooper, CNN's newsroom, he's talking to their correspondent, Brian Todd, about a neighborhood in Hoboken recovering.
This is a volunteer from the neighborhood here.
He and a couple of other guys have come out here on the corners here, clearing out storm drains.
And I think that that's responsible for a lot of the water receiving.
City workers also doing what they can to siphon this out.
How great is that?
People coming out with whatever equipment they have, a ski pole in some cases, or whatever they have, and just trying to clear storm drains.
Obviously, a strong sense of community there, and that's great to see.
Wow.
Anderson Cooper sounds a little surprised that Hoboken citizens are clearing their own storm drains.
Wow, that's so great.
What is he?
Anderson, what do you think happens in these?
Do you think government magicians show up and magically fix everything when these things happen?
This is why, I mean, they're out of touch.
It's a shock to him.
Well, not a shock, but he's enthused to see people helping themselves.
What else are they going to do?
Okay, ladies and gentlemen, the funny business is beginning.
The head of the Florida Democrat Party has sent a letter to Governor Rick Scott asking him to extend early voting through Sunday to ensure that everybody has a chance to be heard.
The Democrat Party chairman is Rod Smith.
He sent the request this afternoon after mounting reports of record voter turnout across the state and long waits for voters in many cases.
Now, stop and think about this.
Election Day is Tuesday.
Early voting is going to end.
What does it end?
Tomorrow we don't know because we don't early vote, because we don't cheat.
Just kidding.
Point is, okay, so let's just say early voting ends tomorrow.
Then vote Tuesday.
Ever think of that?
Mr. Smith, Tuesday's Election Day, November 6th.
You ever thought about maybe if you don't make early voting, then you vote on Election Day?
Something sniffy here, folks.
Something smells here.
Long lines.
We know that Romney, the Gallup people, Romney is cleaning up in the early voting.
Party.
Nobody counts them.
It's just the party registration.
Extend early voting.
The funny business begins.
The Democrats want to change the rules.
Okay, early voting ends Saturday here in Florida.
So the Democrat Party guy wants to extend it an additional day through Sunday.
I really, what?
People are going to leave town and not be here on real Election Day.
Anyway, the Pew people have confirmed Romney leading in early voting.
You got two polling units now saying so, Gallup and Pew.
And again, it's just party requests.
It's not, they're not, they don't count these votes in advance.
Well, they're not supposed to.
They're set aside, but they're not counted.
Grab a quick phone call.
St. John, Indiana.
Kim, welcome.
Great to have you here.
Well, thank you very much.
I appreciate the encouragement you offer with all the research that you do.
Thank you.
I appreciate that.
Thank you very much.
And I have to say something in my defense.
You talk about early voting, and normally I love to vote on Election Day.
But we just had our first grandbaby, and we have our second one due any day.
So instead of missing the vote, I did decide to go to early voting.
Well, congratulations.
Congratulations.
So that is kind of an extenuating circumstance, I would think.
But I didn't want to miss voting, so I did go today.
Our assessor's office and several other offices in the Lake County area are letting residents come in.
You have to show ID.
You have to go through all the process that you would on Election Day.
Lake County is and has been for many years a Democratic stronghold.
Yeah, I know.
It was a big county during Operation Chaos.
Yes, it was.
Remember that?
Hillary and Obama, and Lake County went Hillary because of us.
And there was all kinds of shenanigans that went on there.
Didn't somebody have to quit or resign in disgrace or something?
Well, Lake County has always been a little questionable.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
But I've lived here.
It's so close to Chicago.
It's very near Chicago, yes.
But I wanted to call with some encouragement for you today because when we, my daughter and I went for the early voting, and when we did, a lot of the discussion seemed definitely, I mean, they were talking about fiscal responsibility.
We need to, you know, drill for our own and provide our own.
And this was even coming from people who I knew that they had said they were retired teachers.
Right.
There were a few there that were in the union, and you definitely knew which way they were going.
But the majority of the discussions that I overheard and I was kind of listening were talking about needing to be more responsible, needing to get away from the socialism.
Let me tell you what's happening out there.
With this early voting, at least from the polling data that we're seeing, both from the Pew people and Gallup.
You might, some people could equate enthusiasm with early voting.
People are really excited.
Get out there and vote.
And if it's going, and from what you're telling me, it's lining up.
Sounds like Republicans were there when you were there.
And again, that's anecdotal.
You can't assign any meaning to that because there have been many days prior to when you showed up, and who knows what happened on those days.
But it's still, I imagine it was uplifting for you to hear and to see all that.
It was inspiring.
So coupled with that and what you heard on the program today, you're loaded for bear.
You're ready to go.
Yes, I am.
And then that grandbaby to boot.
That's exactly right.
But yes, it was very encouraging.
They said it was a little over two-hour wait today, and they said it keeps getting worse.
So they're having longer, longer waits.
Well, that's from the Obama and polling worker standpoints.
It's better for us.
Well, that's what they told us today.
And if it's getting worse, that means more Republicans are showing up to vote early, particularly in Indiana.
It's Lake County, but it's still.
It could be Republicans.
We will choose here to believe that because I'm oriented toward positive stuff.
So congratulations on the grandchild coming, another mouth to feed and raise.
And have fun with it.
That's great.
That's Kim in St. John, Indiana.
By the way, the Obama regime temporarily waiving some Clean Air Act requirements in Mississippi, Alabama, District of Columbia and 14 other states because of the storm.
The EPA is granting clean gasoline waivers.
They are admitting that regulation is halting the flow of gasoline.
The free flow of gasoline at market prices being hampered by EPA regs, they are waiving them now.
To me, this is a nail in the coffin of government.
When you need something to happen right, when you need something to happen efficiently, you've got to get government out of the way.
Got to learn this, folks.
Obama thinks he's going out there and doing great things.
I told everybody, answer the phone in 15 minutes.
Whatever people need, make sure they get.
Why shouldn't that be the case every day?
And why do you want credit for making it work one or two days a year?
Okay, audio soundbites.
Let's see.
Tom Ridge was on America's Newsroom today with Bill Hemmer.
Hammer said, is this a head fake?
Romney's spending all this money in Pennsylvania.
You think they have a legitimate shot winning Pennsylvania?
They've had a quiet ground game going on in Pennsylvania that nobody's noticed.
We've had more contacts in 2012 than we did in 2004 and 2008 together.
The base is really exciting.
At the end of the day, Pennsylvanians are suffering from the past four years with a lack of leadership in the White House.
You're saying now that you think Romney wins your state?
Yes, I'm going to go on record to say he wins it.
It's going to be close.
Very, very close.
Tom Ridge, big establishment Republican guy predicting Pennsylvania for Romney.
Now, if he really didn't think Romney was going to win, would he say that?
Would he say, well, I don't really.
He wouldn't say that.
What he would say is, it's just, it's not, Bill, it's too close to call.
Really hard to say.
Anything can happen.
All depends on.
He could have said that to cover.
No, I think he's going to win it.
Now, he won't pay a price if they don't.
Don't misunderstand.
But still, he could have gone to get away.
Here's Major Garrett, formerly a Fox, now at National Journal.
He's on CBS this morning with Nora O'Donnell.
And she said state polls.
They show Obama with a lead, Wisconsin, New Hampshire, Iowa.
He has a five-point lead in Ohio.
You've been talking to Team Obama, top officials in Chicago.
What do they make of these numbers?
I was in Chicago two days ago, and they are supernaturally confident about the president's ability to win reelection.
That's a normal place for the Obama campaign.
The Obama campaign know their voter contacts, and if they know what they know, they're going to win.
But if everything they know is wrong, they're going to lose.
If everything we understand about this election is wrong, then we're going to lose.
That's a hell of a thing to say.
If everything that we know is wrong, we're going to lose.
These people do have the ability to lie to themselves.
That's just a strange thing.
There's Karl Rove.
He was on the O'Reilly factor last night.
By the way, the Koch brothers, the evil, scheming 1%er Koch brothers, they have a pack, Americans for Prosperity.
I'm being fancy.
I love them.
I know them.
The Koch family is a great family.
Anyway, they've thrown a million and a half dollars in the Pennsylvania ad started yesterday.
All told, there's over $6 million Romney money in that state now, $650,000 Obama money.
That's not a head fake.
That is not head fake money.
And that's not, somebody else said, well, you got the money.
Why not just burn it?
That's not burning the money.
You put $6 million in.
They got people on the ground in there today.
They've sent people on the ground in there that were not in there.
So, oh, and what else did I see?
What else?
Somebody sent me a note.
The Obama campaign has sent out an urgent request for people to man the phones in Pennsylvania.
Where did I see that?
Is it Pennsylvania that I saw that?
Was it somewhere?
Something tells me it was Pennsylvania that they've sent out a request for people to answer the phones.
I'll try to find out during the break, which I have to take now.
Back up.
I was right.
It's Howard Dean's brother, Jim Dean, is asking for Obama's supporters to go man the phones in Pennsylvania.
Nuts, not ahead, but my buddy Jeff Lord sent me the note last night, and I was on top of my head here, Jeff Lord, the American spectator.
Howard Dean's brother has sent out this request for Democrats in the state to show up and help them do phone banks.
There's no early voting in Pennsylvania, only absentee.
CBSPhilly.com, new poll shows Romney with momentum in Pennsylvania.
So that is, and Pennsylvania is a coal state.
Ohio is a coal state.
West Virginia is a coal state.
And there are stories.
I've got them in the stack.
I haven't had a chance to get to them.
Coal miners lived at Obama.
They know there are quotes from coal miners.
It kind of breaks my heart a little bit.
They're talking about how Obama's actually putting them out of business.
And I'm thinking, I told you guys this during 2008's campaign.
Obama said he was going to put the coal business out of business.
And he's doing it.
He promised to do it.
He said, you can start a coal-fired plant if you want to, but you're going to go bankrupt with my regulations.
So Pennsylvania is a coal state, big coal state.
Ohio is as well.
Of course, West Virginia is a coal state.
Colorado is a coal state.
Colorado coal miners are up in arms.
Folks, there's so much stuff going on here under the radar that the drive-bys will not tell you.
It's like they won't tell you about Benghazi.
They're not going to tell you the problems that Obama's got in this race.
They're doing just the exact opposite.
So that's right.
That is not a head fake.
You send people in to answer the phones or man the phones if you're a Democrat.
Okay.
Let's see.
Dana in Topeka, Kansas, as we head back to the phones.
Nice to have you with us.
Hello.
Hi, Rich.
Hi.
Just an honor.
So thanks for taking my call.
Thank you very much.
I appreciate that.
What I called to tell you was I wanted to thank you for turning me into a radical person.
I was raised in South Dakota.
I died in the wool Democrat parents.
I kid you not.
The governor back then, Dick Knight, would come to my father's house and hunt peasants.
So I was raised a Democrat through and through and through and was a Democrat for years until a banker friend of mine sat me down one day and said, Dana, a person with your values, your hard work, you know, your pride, I cannot believe you're a Democrat.
That just slays me, you know.
So I changed parties.
However, I was not a radical.
I mean, you, R. Slimball, have opened my eyes to Mainstream America.
I thought.
I love that.
I turned you into a radical.
You did.
And I'm telling you what, it is bad.
I don't know that my friends like this, but, you know, even my own sister knows nothing about Benghazi.
Indeed, guess why?
Because she lives in South Dakota and listens to Mainstream America.
And it just amazes me.
How can people not know about this?
If they did, well, you know the election would be over.
And so you really opened my eyes.
Look at Mainstream America.
I was foolish enough to think that they reported the truth because this is free America.
Well, it's far from that.
And I have not been listening to you, but for maybe a couple of months.
And oh my lands, you've turned me into a radical.
And I don't know if that's good or bad, but by God.
Well, it sounds like you enjoy it.
I do.
I'm very passionate in what I believe in and believe you me.
Well, that's good.
I think you probably feel a little liberated now.
I think you feel like you know what you believe.
You're not echoing what you've always heard growing up and just saying it because of it.
You believe it now.
And if that's radical to you, that's great.
Stay that way.
You've made my day.
I'm glad to hear from you, but I've got to run.
I feel bad because I don't have any time left.
I just have to go.
Okay, the regime, as I told you, they're trying to build a 2008 turnout model.
And that's not what's going to happen.
If we turn out like we did in 2010, the same thing is going to happen as happened in 2010.
That's all it's about, turnout.
Duplicating 2010.
See you tomorrow.
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