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Nov. 2, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 2, 2012, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
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It's another busy broadcast day here at the EIB Network on Friday.
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Look, I don't want to, let's not bore you.
That's not the word.
I don't want to wear anybody out.
And I don't know what the fatigue factor is.
I frankly, you know, I hear people talking about, they just want this election over.
People in Ohio, Virginia, and Florida just want this election over.
You know what?
I think that's the Obama people who want this election over.
I mean, I want the election to happen, but I'm not tired of this.
I can sit here every day telling people the truth about this country.
I can sit here every day telling you what I fear if Obama's re-elected until everybody agreed with me, until everybody heard me.
I am not worn out defending this country.
I'm not worn out informing people about the fears that I have in regard to Obama, the Democrat Party.
I want the election over because I want to win it.
I want to start moving forward.
I want to stop this regression that we're in, economic recession, this silly transformation of America that Obama has undertaken.
We want to get busy and start reversing this.
But I hear in the media, they're CNN today.
Well, you know, people are really getting tired of the election.
I don't doubt that there are people tired of the election.
I think it's mostly the people who really just want this all done with and over with are people who are probably more aligned with Obama.
And that's because they're not feeling good about it.
You know, the polls are out.
Rasmussen's out today.
It's a dead heat.
48-48.
Yesterday, it was Romney up too.
So there's not one pollster out there sticking his neck out.
Not one.
The only thing that you can say about these polls is that in none of them is Obama at 50.
And that matters.
When the incumbent is not at 50.
I mean, that's a rule of thumb.
So is the rule of thumb about who wins independence wins the election.
And in all these polls, I don't care what the overall result is.
In all the polls, it's Romney up, for the most part, double digits.
Not in all, but in many of them, double digits in independence.
The enthusiasm and the momentum, there's no question where it is.
It is for Romney.
Just this morning, Obama was in Hilliard, Ohio.
It's outside a larger city in Ohio.
And the crowd was a measly 2,800 for the President of the United States on the last weekend before Election Day.
Fire Department told Fox News, you've got 2,800 people here.
So they asked the campaign about this.
Well, you only got 2,800 people.
By the way, Obama's in an open-collar shirt and a flight jacket.
And Romney, Romney was making his speech today, and it was just a bang-up speech.
I had a guy send me a note that he would have paid to get in to hear this speech today.
It was Romney talking about this country and our future and where we're going and where he's going to take us.
It was uplifting.
It was inspirational.
Obama is none of that.
And Romney's out there in a suit and tie.
I mean, side by side, in terms of who looks like they already are president, looks like Romney.
But all this stuff is still surface.
You can't draw any conclusion from it.
All you can do is plug it into what your best thinking is and what you think you know.
And then you tell yourself where we think we are.
I just, I don't see any Obama momentum.
I don't see any Obama enthusiasm.
I don't even really see much from him.
I get Clinton out there.
Clinton's out there saying, what did he say?
He said, I may be the only one in America, but I think I am more excited about Barack Obama than I ever have been.
That's not an exact quote, but he said it's pretty close.
I may be the only guy in America, but he did say that.
But I think the Obama people want this election over.
The rest of us want Obama over.
And that is what keeps us inspired and what keeps us going.
So Romney's drawing huge crowds.
Obama's drawing little piddly crowds.
Obama's spending all these last days in these swing states.
You know, Mooch Hill, the first lady, is in, would you say Virginia or North Carolina?
Where'd you say she was, James?
Michelle Obama, what state?
In Virginia at two all-black colleges.
What in the world on the day before the election, the weekend before the election, what in the world is the first lady doing in all-black college?
Shouldn't that sort of been sewn up by now?
So when you see that, folks, when you see something like that, you think, well, they've got to go out there and fire up the base.
They don't even have that.
Their enthusiasm just isn't quite there.
We do have polling data and some analysis of polling data.
And I got what people think the polling data get a story here, eight reasons why the pro-Obama polls are wrong.
And you've probably heard all those reasons.
Then on the other side of this, ladies and gentlemen, is this continuing, enraging story about Benghazi.
That alone is reason enough to fire Barack Obama.
Those of you in this country who are military families, you have served, you have worn the uniform, you have family members have worn the uniform.
If I were you, I would be outraged.
I would be unable to contain myself.
I'm already that way.
It is stunning what we are continuing to learn.
And it is dribbling out.
David Ignatius writing columns now about it, The Washington Post.
Tom Broko even talked about it today on the Today Show this morning.
It is dribbling out.
And whatever happens on Election Day, this is going to be investigated.
This is going to cause heads to roll.
This is inexplicable.
And what is happening, what did happen, is inexcusable.
The White House has been lying.
The State Department has been even lying a couple of the CIA trying to fall on the sword.
You go back to the first of Benghazi, the White House insisting for what was it, 10 days that a video was responsible for this, that there was no evidence of a terror attack.
All this was a spontaneously combustible protest.
It was just that YouTube video, that YouTube video got everybody all upset.
Fox News, today Jennifer Griffin is back.
Fox News, Jennifer Griffin, reporting that cables from the consulate in Benghazi, cables from the consulate itself, made clear that they were expecting an attack from local militia groups in the hours before the attack.
We learned yesterday that the ambassador himself had sent cables in August warning the White House and the State Department and everybody else that al-Qaeda was amassing.
Al-Qaeda was assembling.
They were rehearsing.
He feared an attack.
He wanted security.
He wanted defense structure.
We learned today from Fox News this morning that the consulate itself sent cables hours before the attack that they expected the attack.
The consulate, what we know now, many, multiple times prior to the attack, told Washington an attack was coming, as far back as September, up to and including hours prior to it.
The consulate also told the State Department that they had reason to believe that their local security was gathering intel for the attack.
Their local security was not trusted.
And turns out, local security could not be trusted.
So they've tried to pass this off to everybody.
They tried to say, well, Hillary Clinton took responsibility.
The State Department over here, CIA over there.
What all this adds up to is that this came from the White House.
All this adds up to this came from the White House.
This came from the, and the buck, the buck never got here, Bill Clinton always said.
This is going to end up.
You watch.
Before this is all said and done, it's going to leak.
The trail is going to go right back to the Oval Office and the Situation Room and the President and whoever was in there with him.
This is, folks, it's just, it's just a, I don't know, it's a crying shame what is happening.
And the Northeast Union crews are turning away non-union repair workers to help out in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy.
The Las Vegas newspaper, Las Vegas Review Journal, scathing editorial anti-Obama on Benghazi.
Benghazi blunder, Obama unworthy, commander-in-chief.
CBS News, Cheryl Atkinson, key task force not convened during Benghazi consulate attack.
CBS News has learned that during the 9-11 attack on the mission in Benghazi, the regime did not convene its top interagency counterterrorism resource, which is the Counterterrorism Security Group, CSG.
CSG is the one group that is supposed to know what resources every agency has.
They know of multiple options and have the ability to coordinate counterterrorism assets across all agencies.
They were not convened.
They were not assembled.
Their work, their input, was not consulted.
High-ranking government official told this to Cheryl Atkinson, CBS News.
They weren't allowed to do their job.
They were not called upon.
You've heard about Tyrone Woods begging for help, thinking he had air support when he's lighting up the mortar rounds with his laser.
Every day we learn more and more about this.
I hear everybody repeating my line.
I like it too.
Nobody died at Watergate.
This is far more than Watergate, and the press in this case is the equivalent of Woodward and Bernstein helping Nixon cover up Watergate.
I must take a brief time out.
We'll get your calls in because it's Open Line Friday.
We'll start earlier than usual.
At least we'll try to.
They got a lot to mix and match here today, as is always the case on Open Line Friday here at the EIB Network.
Hang in or be tough.
Be right back.
Yeah, that's exactly what Bill Clinton said.
I may be the only person in America, but I'm more excited about Obama this time.
Now, are we supposed to believe that Bill Clinton doesn't know what he's saying?
Why would he say, I may be the only person in America?
What does that mean?
No, no, no, no, no.
Seriously, Clinton didn't just open the mouth and have syllables pop out.
I may be the only person in America, but I'm more excited about Obama.
Is he admitting something here?
Am I reading too much into this?
I don't think I'm reading too much into it either, but I don't want to be wrong about it.
I don't want to be reading too much into it if there's nothing to read here, but you got a guy.
We're three days away, four days away in the election.
I may be the only person in America, but I'm more excited about Obama.
It's sort of like this notion that Obama acting presidential with Chris Christie for a couple hours is a game changer.
What needs to be changed?
I want to remind you again.
I've got things popping into my head all over the place.
Earlier this week, Gallup came out with that 9,000-plus sample poll.
Margin of error of only plus or minus 1%.
9,000 people.
It was a poll that asked party affiliation.
Party ID.
It came up with plus three Republican.
As of now, party ID.
I don't know if it was likely voters, registered voters, adults, whatever.
I don't remember what it was, but it was some classification of voters.
Now, in 2008, the same poll had Democrats plus 12.
Exit polling had Democrats plus 12.
The polling data that everybody's going, all these polls that show it neck and neck, they have something in common, except I think Rasmussen.
There's always an exception.
They're all using the 2008 turnout model.
If you look at Rasmussen and one other, that all they do is poll and Gallup.
Rasmussen and Gallup.
All they do is poll.
The other outfits, they're attached to universities.
What's the bias there?
They're attached to news networks.
What's the bias there?
Now, we know that objectivity is not possible.
There's, especially these people.
Now, I've always believed media bias, folks, and objectivity.
Objectivity is not really possible.
If you have people as interested in this stuff as you and I are, we all have desired outcomes.
We all want certain things to happen.
So do people do the polls.
So do the people paying for the polls.
Marist, Quinnipiak, these universities, we know the slant.
Everybody there is engaged.
Nobody is ambivalent about the result.
They all have a vested interest in the outcome.
Some have a political preference.
Some have a business interest or what have you.
But there isn't really pure objectivity here.
See, if you factor these things in the two, the two outfits that do nothing but poll.
They're not attached to universities.
They're not attached to networks or other liberal bastions, unless they might be one self-contained and Gallup.
You've got Pew, Rasmussen, and Gallup.
The others all have associations with predominantly liberal institutions.
And none of them want to stick their heads out.
None of them.
None of them.
The idea that the election's tied, it's close, that none of what happened in the campaign has mattered, that none of what happened in the debates has mattered.
Really?
That Hurricane Sandy and the aftermath.
ABC on their, on Good Morning America Today, actually said they've got a poll.
Eight out of ten approve of Obama's handling.
Well, I've got some sound bites from people from Staten Island and from Queens.
They're not happy.
In fact, this is going to get worse, much worse before it gets better.
And now they're going to run the New York Marathon.
They're going to, you know, what they're doing.
You know what Bloomberg's doing?
They are kicking refugees, essentially, out of hotels to make room for people coming into town to run the marathon.
Well, we need the money.
Oh, yeah, we need an economic benefit of the New York Marathon.
Everybody, wherever you go, they're outraged over this decision.
How in the world, when you've got people starving, when you have people begging for food, begging for clothes, they have no place to stay.
They've got no heat.
It's going to get cold at night this weekend.
How in the world do you do that?
Well, liberalism, folks, I hate to be so simplistic with the answer, but it means something.
And I could really rock the boat if I added something else.
What I really think of it is marathon business.
Well, because that's it's it's part of the health Nazi crowd.
And they're all leftists, too.
It's all part of the you can't have something larger than 16 ounces to drink.
You can't even eat trans fat.
These are the people on the other side of that that are loved and adored.
It's Open Line Friday, Rush Limboy here at the distinguished and prestigious Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
The phone number you want to be on the program is 800-282-2882.
Romney has a speech in Cincinnati today.
They are expecting 50,000 people.
2,800 people showed up this morning to hear Obama in Hilliard, Ohio.
Are we not to make anything of that?
Does that not mean anything?
The pollsters today tell us the race is tied, just as it was, oh, I don't know.
Obama, six months ago, what was it, Obama?
This is a good point, by the way.
People were shouting polls at me back in April and May.
It doesn't make any difference.
It doesn't make a damn bit of difference.
Does anybody remember what they were?
Off the top of your head, that's proving my point.
But I'll tell you this.
I do recall that back then, Obama was up.
Obama's at 3, 5, 1, it was in the bag.
If you recall, it was in the bag.
It was over.
In fact, going into the first debate, as far as the media, as far as the regime was concerned, the election was over.
It was a formality.
One of the reasons Obama performed so poorly in the debates because he didn't think it mattered.
Now it's tied.
So essentially, what's happened here is that all this movement from Romney, Obama hasn't moved.
He's still 47, 48, 46, nowhere near 50.
All the movement's been Romney, but it just tied.
After all of this, after all this money, after all of these ads, after all the debates, after all the press coverage, it's tied.
But yet the external signs that you see and the polling data, the early voting advantage for Romney, the absentee ballot advantage, the apparent winnable swing states just in the last week, Romney's crowds are swelling and getting larger.
Obama's are shrinking.
Romney looks like the president.
Obama doesn't.
Bill Clinton, I may be the only guy in America, but I'm actually more excited for Obama now than I was before and I've ever been.
Benghazi, starting, it's starting to take hold in places.
I'll tell you something else happening in the Northeast, this hurricane after me.
I must be honest here.
This is not something I derive a lot of pleasure in saying.
The people up there are going to learn that the collective doesn't get it done.
Government ain't going to get your gas camps.
It isn't going to happen.
I wonder how many of them expected major progress toward resolution of their problems by now.
Hurricane hit Tuesday.
I wonder how many people are shocked and surprised that it isn't getting any better.
In fact, it may be worsening, despite the fact the president came to town.
President flew in.
Isn't that supposed to mean something?
President came in and met the governor of New Jersey.
And Chris, oh, you want to hear something funny?
The other day on this program, and I was talking about Christie and Obama getting together, and this is hilarious.
Christy and Obama get together, and I'm using my line that Christie is playing the role of a Greek column for Obama.
And they're walking around, and I said, is it wrong for one man to love another?
Let me tell you where that comes from.
I play golf, and one of the guys I play, when we're teams up, teamed up, playing Tucsoms, you pair up your partner against the other two in the Foresome.
And I got this one guy.
When I sink a pot or when I do something that wins the whole, he comes up and hugs me and says, is it wrong to love another man?
It's just a way to go.
There's nothing gay about these people think I'm making gay allegations.
It's a Seinfeld line.
Well, I never watched Seinfeld.
Sorry.
I never watched it.
I didn't watch MASH either.
But I know people think it's sacrilegious that I never watched MASH.
I've never seen maybe two episodes.
I liked the movie so much.
If the people in the movie were not going to be in the TV show, I didn't want to watch it.
That was my reaction.
I mean, how do you replace hot lips houlihan from the movie?
How do you get you can't?
At any rate, I don't want to get sidetracked here.
There was no gay river.
It was just a little private joke that this friend of mine, is it wrong to love another man?
He's just happy I sunk a putt, won the hole, or what have you.
These guys, and here Brian Williams, apparently, I thought Brian Williams liked me, but apparently he doesn't anymore.
Because he's on Rock Center or whatever that show he has in prime time last night.
And he ripped Michael Brown, the FEMA guy for Bush, and then he ripped me.
He got on me for my line about Christie playing to roll a Greek column for Obama and the thralls of man love.
These guys live such cloistered lives.
They ripped me for that.
And then he ripped me for being against bipartisanship.
And leave it to Rush Limbaugh to be the only guy in America who doesn't like the fact that the governor of New Jersey had something good to say about the president of the United States.
And then Chris Matthews over on MSNBC said, I reminded him of one of the doofuses in deliverance.
So the fact that I didn't buy into this just irritates them all to hell.
Now, we have to correctly identify bipartisanship to understand these people.
So here it is.
So, Brian Williams.
So after all this loss, you might be curious as to why Rush Limbaugh went after Governor Christie today.
It was because he was getting along so well with the president, working together, saying nice things about Barack Obama.
Just when we think the storm wiped away everything, we learn politics survive.
Brian, come on.
What do you think the stroll on the beach with Obama and Christie was?
It was politics.
Why Dick Obama called Christie?
He wanted to go into town.
It was politics.
See, this is the thing.
You want to get on the brass tacks?
Do you want to talk real about this?
The way for a governor or president to handle this is with substance, not what's the phrase I used to say?
Symbolism over substance.
Walking the beach accomplished what?
Hugging the woman.
Folks, stick with me on here.
You know, I live in Rielville.
Hugging the woman accomplished what?
In terms of the expressed purpose for all this happening, real leadership would have been Christie and Obama and whoever else gathering in a command center and coordinating relief efforts with them not on the scene.
You take these guys anywhere.
This is why Doomberg, in a rare moment of sanity, said no to Obama when he asked to come to town.
Look, if you show up here, I have to allocate security resources.
I've got to get cars that I don't need or have.
I've got to get highway patrol.
I've got to get a security detail for you.
We've got to plan logistics.
You're just getting away here.
It's not that we don't love you, Mr. Obama.
You're just getting away here.
The real, but what was happening there was style?
What happened there was symbolism.
And it didn't accomplish anything.
Not for the residents.
It did accomplish things for Obama.
Big whoop.
And by the way, if you doubt me, what was the press reaction after this?
How did this help Obama?
Not, is this going to help people who don't have fuel?
Is this going to help people that don't have homes with electricity?
Is this going to help, that question wasn't even asked.
It's not being asked today.
The question is still being asked, did it help Obama?
Did it help Christie?
Is it the reason why Obama got a bump in the polls?
Is it the reason why Obama?
Somebody even said maybe Obama tied Rasmussen today because he got a bump coming out of.
Obama doesn't deserve a bump coming out of Sam.
He hadn't done anything.
Is this too hard-hitting?
Am I being too – but bipartisan?
There wasn't any bipartisanship going to Brian Williams and to Tom Brok on, whoever else, to all of NBC, ABC, CBS, NBC, the New York Times, the definition of bipartisanship is what?
When any Republican sacrifices his own beliefs and agrees with a Democrat, or when a Republican throws everything aside and makes a Democrat look good.
That is how the press defines bipartisanship.
Bipartisanship must require Republicans caving in one way or the other, or subordinating themselves one way or the other, or giving up something they believe in one way or the other.
That's bipartisanship.
And so, bipartisanship here was Governor Christie, a week before the election, essentially endorsing Obama.
Well, in my book, that's not bipartisanship.
There's another word for it, but it ain't bipartisan.
But it is from their perspective.
Governor Christie just basically said to hell with you, Mitt.
I'm throwing in with Obama right now.
That's great bipartisanship as far as they're concerned.
Well, it's not in my book.
So they're all upset with me over.
They think I was.
Does anybody really believe?
I mean, you look at, you got Barack Obama and Chris.
Does anybody think those two are going to get married someday soon?
Come on, let's get real here now.
Is it wrong to love another man?
It's just.
Well, but it's not, forget Michelle.
I mean, just the optics.
They were stretching to believe what they wanted to believe.
They're stretching.
But that wasn't bipartisanship.
And it wasn't progress.
Look, we've got some sound bites here from people.
Staten Island, Mr. Obama, please help us.
Where are you?
He's in Vegas or wherever.
He's campaigning.
In fact, I got an email from a friend last night.
I don't watch the nightly news anymore because I don't need to go to museums.
And that's what the nightly news is.
It's a museum.
So I got a note from a friend.
He said, well, you won't believe what I just saw in the nightly news.
I said, what?
Pictures of people suffering in Staten Island, dumpster diving in Queens for food.
New Yorkers, Americans in line at gas stations with their little gas cans, dumpster diving, pleading for help.
And the next picture was Obama smiling and laughing and yucking it up, getting off of Air Force One at a campaign appearance.
I said, so he said, well, the media is that side by side.
That's what they usually do to Republicans.
I have to admit, he had a point.
I didn't see it.
I said, are you just seeing something you want to see?
And he said, no, no, no, I didn't see it either.
I'm having people flash me about it.
So apparently it was a widely held view among the people that watched it.
Anyway, let's take a break, and I will come back.
Oh, there's a great hashtag on Twitter.
You know what a hashtag is?
You don't know what a hashtag is.
Well, put your mind.
You know what a tag is.
Okay, a hashtag is let them eat marathons.
I'm telling you, going ahead with this marathon in the midst of all this, kicking residents out of hotels to make room for marathoners.
Dead little children being kicked out.
They're bringing two giant generators that could power 400 houses into Central Park to power things for the marathon.
Yeah, and this all at the behest of Mayor Doomberg.
Take a timeout.
Be back in a second.
I got an email.
You got to play the Romney speech.
You got to play soundbites in the Romney speech tomorrow because I was praising it.
He looked great.
He looked presidential.
Suit and tie, Obama, the flight jacket, open collar.
Romney due to speak to 50,000 Cincinnati later today.
You got to play it.
We won't hear it.
Otherwise, the media won't play.
I got it.
I have three soundbites from it here.
Let's see.
Here, grab 28.
You don't believe me.
Snerdley's not believing.
He told me during the break he doesn't believe that Clinton actually said this.
I hear all these people say, oh, I was so enthusiastic four years ago.
I had so much hope for change.
And I'm disappointed in this, that, and the other thing.
Let me tell you something.
I may be the only person in America, but I am far more enthusiastic about President Obama this time.
That's even worse than I thought.
It's down in Lake Worth.
It's not a Lake Worth.
Lake Worth matters because that's where the FedEx Center is.
And FedEx brings our Apple stuff.
So we love Lake Worth.
Clinton was down there in Lake Worth.
I hear all these people say, I was like, well, he's admitting.
Where's he going?
He's going to Democrat groups everywhere I go.
I said, they're so disappointed.
They were hoping for this and wanting change there.
And they're hoping for that.
And I'm disappointed in this.
I'm disappointed.
He's not talking about Republicans.
He's not talking to Republican groups.
Well, with friends like this, who needs enemies?
In Florida, you say, yeah, everywhere I go, people tell me how disappointed they are and they wanted change.
And I may be the only guy in America, but I'm more excited.
I'm sorry, folks.
I'm sorry.
I don't see how that works for Obama.
Let's see.
Oh, unemployment rate.
I saw Obama today.
Obama's out there saying, we have more jobs created last month than at any time since I've been president.
The unemployment rate went up 7.9% from 7.8.
And as usual, post-election revisions in these numbers, I predict, are going to shock a lot of people.
And if Obama's already promised policies, already not quite etched in the stone, if he's re-elected and implemented, we're speeding right to another recession.
The horror stories that are coming out state by state now about tax increases and costs of premiums for health insurance, even now with this early implementation of Obamacare, are scary.
So this 7.9% number, it went up.
Obama's out.
Well, the only reason it went up is because more people are not looking for work.
They're feeling better about finding a job.
He took office, the unemployment rate, 7.8%.
He spent the stimulus.
He promised a 5.2% unemployment.
He was promising 500,000 jobs a month.
This 100, whatever it was, 1,000-number job, whatever the number was today, is barely enough to keep up with our population growth.
We're not creating jobs anywhere near a number that will reduce unemployment or increase the labor force participation rate.
Nothing in place to make that happen.
Yeah, I promise to get phone calls in.
And in fact, I told Snerdley to get ready 25 minutes ago.
We're going to the phones.
And I was liking the way I was sounding so much.
And I just, I never got there.
So I promise we'll get to the phones early in the next hour.
It is Open Line Friday.
Sit tight, folks.
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