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Nov. 7, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 7, 2012, Wednesday, Hour #3
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Hey, folks, I know you're in shock.
I know you don't believe this.
I know you don't understand it.
Despite my heroic efforts to explain this.
And I'm I'm with you.
Look, I lived through the last two months with you.
I know exactly what was going on.
Let us review, shall we?
Let's take a look at some things.
First, we had the Redskin rule.
Didn't count this year.
We had the rising unemployment number throughout the Obama regime, even though it got under 8% right before the election.
The unemployment situation in this country is a disaster.
There aren't any jobs being created.
There certainly aren't any good ones, and there's no end in sight to what currently is going on.
Mitt Romney was at 52% a week ago in the Gallup poll.
Mitt Romney was up by five or six points for three or four, five days in a row.
Obama never got 250 until the day before the election.
Never got to 50.
The crowd turnouts, standing room only, had to change venues for Romney.
Obama can't fill tiny venues.
He had to move his convention speech from outdoors to indoors because they couldn't round up people to fill the stadium.
They had to move indoors in Las Vegas.
Couldn't find people to fill the outdoor stadium, 20,000 there.
The last day on the trail is in Ohio.
He's got Bruce Springsteen, he's got Jay-Z, half-filled arena.
There's all the anecdotal evidence, all the energy that was with Romney, all of the dead signs of resigned resignition, sorry, resignation and defeat that accompanied Obama.
And we had the black pastor say, wait a hell we're voting for this guy.
This guy, we don't believe in gay marriage.
We don't like the fact Obama's linking homosexuality to the civil rights movement.
We're not voting for him.
And we're having all of our parishioners not vote for him.
And we had a religious efforts on the Romney side.
Because I don't know that that materialized.
I haven't been able to find out what the evangelical vote turned out to be.
But there was nothing that pointed to an Obama win other than the polls, which showed it tied, other than Obama constantly at 48%.
There were no external fundamental signs that Obama was going to win.
Then you dig deep in the exit polls.
And according to the exit polls, only four in ten voters thought the economy's getting better, and they voted for Obama.
What?
Scratch your head.
According to the exit polls, in addition to that, just 25% of voters thought they're better off financially today than they were four years ago, and they still voted for Obama.
And then Hurricane Sandy, Obama gets credit for showing up with Chris Christie, and that is said what won the election for him.
It's what killed Romney's momentum.
That's what everybody said.
An hour and a half, two hours, max in New Jersey on the ground, accomplishing nothing, with no improvement anywhere in New Jersey or New York for anybody, and Obama is said to get credit for fixing it.
No president has ever been re-elected with an unemployment number over 7.2%.
64% of all voters said that Obama's response to the devastation from Superstorm Standy, uh Sandy was a factor in their vote.
64%, according to the exit polls.
None of this makes sense.
None of this jibes with the feelings.
No, I take it back.
Before the election, my thoughts when I would think about this, and I told you this on election, there's no way Obama wins this, but my feeling, I felt concerned.
You could ask anybody, you can ask my brother.
I had people telling me, asking me Monday and Tuesday, please tell me we're going to win this big, please.
And I didn't.
I never privately told anybody I thought we were going to win this big.
But I'm like you.
Last night watching all this stuff come in, it doesn't jibe with anything we saw.
And yet it happened.
So there has to be a reason for it.
I don't subscribe to massive multiple state voting machine fraud or any of that.
That's just too big an undertaking.
And if that is what happened, I don't know how we're ever going to want to go there.
I do believe, however, I can intellectually believe that we're outnumbered by the people that voted for Obama.
He turned them out.
I mean, there's no, there is no denying he turned them out.
There's no denying the way they voted.
A lot of it doesn't make sense until you accept that we have allowed the understanding of what creates prosperity in this country to be blown up into smithereens.
We have permitted the education system in this country to be blown up the smithereens.
Kindergarten all the way through graduate school.
It is a disaster.
Now what's going to happen?
Well, let me go through the list of possibilities here of what can happen in the country.
And in no particular order, by the way.
One thing that could happen is that the economy could continue to get worse as more Obamacare is implemented and Obama gets his tax increases, the Bush tax cuts will end, and that will lead to tax increases anyway.
That will result in more money being taken out of the private sector.
The government will get bigger.
Obama will continue to borrow.
He will continue to continue to spend.
The people on the receiving end of Obama's Santa Claus behavior will not necessarily feel the negative impact of the economy, as those of you who are working or recently lost their jobs or those of you paying the freight will feel.
And it will continue and continue until it collapses.
That could happen in 18 months.
It could happen in three years.
And But if nothing changes the track we're on, we are facing a financial collapse.
And as we've seen in Greece and Spain, the people that live there don't care that their countries are collapsing.
They just want their pensions and they want their checks and they want their union contracts to continue to be paid.
They don't care what's happening to their government.
They don't care what's happening to the country.
By God, it better not stop.
Same thing will happen here.
There's another possibility.
The American people are extremely resilient.
The question is, are there enough Americans who will roll up their sleeves?
You know what?
I'm just not putting up with this.
I'm going to go ahead.
I'm going to start a business.
I'm going to work hard.
I'm going to try to find a job.
And will the economy, on its own, because of the resilience of the American people, show some signs of life and begin to recover?
If that happens, can I tell you what else is going to happen?
Obama's policies are going to get the credit for it.
All the spending, all the borrowing, all the stimulus, all the green energy, all that stuff will be proclaimed as the reason why.
And we will continue To lose the understanding of how genuine prosperity is created in this country.
It will be forever distorted.
Investors Business Daily has a piece today, five big stories the media will discover after the election.
And there is a commonality, the second terms, presidential second terms, and that is they never fulfill expectations.
Something happens.
It happened to Reagan, Iran Contrary.
It happened to Clinton, Monica Lewinsky.
It happened to George W. Bush.
Finally the Iraq war took its toll, and you know you know the story of the last four Bush years.
Bush started his second term saying he was going to spend his capital to reform and privatize Social Security, and you saw what happened with that.
They demagogue that, Bush pulled it off the table, and a whole new argument began over the government is the best protector of people.
You can't rely on the private sector, Wall Street, and you can't have people respond to themselves or re wh uh depend on themselves, the government has to do it.
Uh Nixon had Watergate in his second term.
It is also said that the media could possibly get tired of protecting and defending Obama and now go after him.
Just because that's who they are.
That they're vampires and they have to feed.
And there's only so many Republicans to feed off of now.
Most of them are gone.
Well, I know they got me, but they but but it's a long shot.
I'm just telling you, these are things that are that are that are possible.
Benghazi is going to rear its head.
Benghazi and these blissfully ignorant voters who are totally unaware of it last night, are going to finally hear about this.
But then the question, will they care?
Probably not, folks.
Not the Obama voters.
They probably won't care if they don't care about anything else.
But the five stories Investors Business Daily says the media will discover, quote unquote.
The economy really does stink.
The press studiously ignored the ongoing economic catastrophe under Obama while parading any green chute they could find that suggested growth with just around the corner.
Don't be surprised if after the election they start to notice that the three years of subpar growth have left the middle class further behind and more mired in poverty.
That's wishful thinking.
The press is invested in this guy.
The press is so tied to this guy because of race, there's no way.
I stand to be corrected on this, but I mean the press made this guy who he is, but you know, normally press likes to take people down that they've built up.
Do you see them taking Obama down?
Do you see F Chuck Todd ripping into Obama?
You see, you see Chris Matthews ripping into Obama.
You uh you see Scott Pelley ripping in, you see uh Brian Williams ripping into Obama.
No, they're gonna be ripping into me.
Make no mistake about that.
By the way, it won't take the end of this week, folks.
I'm gonna be not Chris Christie, I'm gonna be the reason all this happened.
Just warning you.
I will be the reason.
And it'll be said if a Republican Party wants to have a future, they have to shut up people like me.
And stop listening to people like me, L extremists.
In fact, it has already started in certain sectors of the Republican consultants' ranks.
It's already started.
Um the investors' business daily list of stories they'll discover, massive debt and entitlement crises loom.
Despite four straight years of trillion plus dollar deficits and a national debt that now exceeds the GDP.
You know, you think anybody voted for Obama even knows what that means.
If you if you could have gone to the McCormick place last night, before Obama came out, accepted his speech, as his victory speech, you just pick anybody out of that crowd.
Say, do you you people understand here that the national debt exceeds the GDP?
How many of them at McCormick Place would have had the slightest idea what you're talking about?
I'll say conservatively less than 5%.
What's national debt?
And really, what do you mean GDP?
And then after you told them, they'd say, okay, what's the problem?
This is part and part.
We we just assume, you know, these things we throw out that we understand that the national debt exceeds the GDP.
We just assume people are going to understand what that means.
I have to tell you that your average Obama voter not only doesn't know, but can't be made to care.
It's not about any of that.
The only way the average Obama voter is going to care about that is if it's gonna personally interrupt the flow of goodies income or whatever that he's getting from government.
Number three, the debt ceiling limit is fast approaching.
Another story went largely unremarked on in the campaign is the fact that the country's approaching the new debt ceiling limit.
Treasury department warned last week expects the government to reach its borrowing limit before the end of the year.
I take you back to McCormick Place.
Pick any Obama voter out of that massive crowd last night.
So you know what?
The debt ceiling is coming up.
You're gonna have to have to make special arrangements, keep borrowing.
Okay, well, so do it, they'll say.
What's the problem?
If we've reached the limit, just raise it.
Problem solved.
And then if you say, well, do you know what the debt limit is?
Well, I assume it's, you know, what what will debt that we should limit?
That's exactly right.
Uh next story that IBD says that the media will discover, Obamacare isn't what it's cracked up to be.
After two years of ignoring health reform's fundamental flaws, the press will likely admit that Obamacare is fundamentally flawed.
Uh head back to the McCormick place.
Do you realize that Obamacare is going to cost the average American an additional $2,500 in premiums?
I don't care.
I'm not paying for it.
Oh, yes, you will.
You wait.
I'm not going to pay for it.
I'm not paying for my health care now.
Union takes care of that or the government.
Yeah, but are you aware that the IRS has 16,000 new agents that are going to be running around making sure that if you don't have health insurance, you're paying a fine.
I don't believe that.
I don't believe that.
Well, that's true.
Your average McCormick place attended a fine for not having health.
No.
Besides Obama's going to provide it.
And the other issue, Obama's deficit cutting plan won't work.
Do you think they really care about deficit?
I don't think they could give it.
Folks, there are uh quite a few facts, a lot of facts, actually, it'll emerge after the election yesterday, including just how engaged all of us were.
Uh, we knew the stakes were high.
Obama's re-election.
It'll be enough for him to claim a mandate.
And you know what his mandate's gonna be?
What's Obama's mandate?
No, it's Bush's fault.
That's well.
That's the mandate.
I what else could the mandate be?
They're gonna they can make the mandate of fact.
I've got stories.
I've got stories here, Ron Fournier, Obama victory comes with no mandate.
There are, in fact, I've got stories here.
Let me just say this.
NPR, ABC News, U.S. News and World Report, Christian Science Monitor, and a bunch of small local papers all have stories and how Obama has no mandate.
He didn't run on any issues.
This is the some people think it's the first sign of the press.
Now, you know, okay, it's second term, okay, Barack, honeymoon's over.
Finally.
But Ron Fournier, I mean, it was in the tank for Obama.
No mandate.
He doesn't have a mandate.
Now, as far as Obama's supporters concerned, his mandates whatever he wants to do.
and the best I can come by his mandate is to blame Bush and the Republicans for four more years.
Because that's what he did the first four.
And he's gonna claim that he's got a mandate to expand the government even more beyond anything that we've ever known.
And we've suffered a setback, folks, but we have not given up on our principles.
And that's important.
Nobody is giving up, but we are facing reality here.
We've got two things that happened here.
We are either outnumbered and are losing ground, or one of the most outrageous thefts of an election in the history of elections taking place.
One of those two things happen.
You take your pick, but reality is reality.
We are in for some rough times.
Okay, we're going back to phones.
They're going to Los Angeles, and this uh Yakov is uh with us now.
Hi, Yakov, great to have you on the program.
Hello.
Hey, great, great to talk to you, uh, Rush Limbaugh.
Thank you, sir.
This is an honor.
You know, in uh in the early nineties, I was going to college, I was president of the young Democrats at the time, believe it or not, and uh a gentleman said to me something very brilliant that you said yesterday, so I know where he got it from, and that I I call myself a moderate, and uh he said to me, he says a moderate is nothing but a uh uh a liberal that has no guts.
So uh Yeah, liberal none doesn't have the guts to say is a liberal, yep.
Exactly.
So that was uh quite amazing to hear that you brought me back yesterday.
And uh of course I've I've I've changed my stance and I have the guts to say I'm a conservative today, so uh and and uh you've helped out a lot with that.
Um reason I'm calling in today is because you know I am uh highly disappointed in how out of touch the Republicans have become with who they're speaking with, not with what they stand for.
I loved R there's nobody more qualified for president in my lifetime than Romney.
I really believe that.
But we our message to the people should not have been to the people who already know that.
The the the reason that Obama won is he did not go to the people who have some intelligence and are liberal and they already knew who they were voting for.
He didn't go to the women that already knew who they were voting for, or the Hispanics who already knew, or the blacks who already he went to the homeless shelters.
He went to the people who were on welfare that he was paying their salaries.
He went to the people who are you know on unemployment but they're got their benefits extended.
He went to the people who really don't understand how the economy works.
You know, the people that have no He didn't have to go to them, his party has created them via the education system of the He'd have to he didn't have to visit a homeless shelter.
The people there already think what they think because Obama's party has gamed it.
Yeah.
And and those people have no clue what republi Republicans can do for them.
They uh uh uh uh yes they do.
Republicans mean they gotta work.
That's what they think Republicans mean that they have to work.
Well, Rush, there's that element, but we've got a lot of people who are hardworking people who are unemployed today.
And and those people, they would love to be working.
You know, but they're on the unemployment line.
And they're also in the welfare line.
So I mean, what did they say?
800 and something billion dollars more than the defense budget.
Right.
Well, um what what percentage of this group are you talking about, you think voted for Obama?
Well, it didn't need to be That many people.
It just we just he just had to push them over the edge.
The people who who could be pushed, the people that could be swayed.
Anybody that who didn't vote last year.
If you've got if you're talking about hard working people, and I agree with you, they're out there hardware, they really want to work and they really want jobs.
Yeah.
If they're engaged enough to want that, I would submit to you they have to know that their biggest obstacle's Obama.
And would vote against him.
If they know how government works.
If they know how economy works, if they know that, you know, if you raise the taxes on a corporation, they're gonna lay off people.
You know, if if if they know that if you're gonna tax people 35% that they're gonna add jobs.
I mean, they they can't, they haven't been taught to do that math.
They haven't even been taught the basics.
All they've been taught was back what you what you used to talk about back in the nineties.
I remember you talking about baby seals.
That's what the Democrats talk about.
You know, they they have their baby seal.
Well, baby seals, now they're talking about Hurricane Sandy and global warming and uh green energy, but it's it's yeah, it's it's one thing or another.
Well, you're basically saying what I'm saying that Obama corralled the uninformed vote.
But I'm submitting to you that some of the people that you say are uninformed are really not.
They are informed enough to know that Obama is the guy that's going to make a lifestyle without work possible.
Two years of unemployment can reduce your work ethic.
We know psychological studies.
The longer you are out of work, the harder it is to go back.
The longer you're out of work, the harder it is to look for a job because you lose your self-esteem.
You lose confidence, you don't think anybody would want you, and you don't think you can do the job.
It really is a is a destructive thing psychologically.
And that is capitalized upon, played upon by Democrats, liberals, statists, who want people like that precisely turning to the government for their solution.
And put a cherry on top of that, little icing on that cake, you tell those people that they're in that circumstance because Republicans own all these corporations and won't hire anybody because they want to keep the profits for themselves.
Yakov, I'm glad you called.
It's great to have you out there.
I appreciate it.
This is Julie, Morgantown, West Virginia.
Hi, welcome to the EIB network.
Hello.
Hi.
Thanks for taking my call.
You bet.
You're the first person I wanted to talk to after yesterday because how logical you are.
Um I think it's a two-fold problem that kind of go hand in hand, and and Emman Green with you, I think it's an info reaching problem and an image reaching problem.
Um obviously the im the info is pretty obvious as far as how the the liberal news media covers things, but I have I have a brother who's a moderate.
I would consider a moderate.
And by the way, I would say it's more how the media doesn't cover things with Obama than what they do cover or even how they cover it.
It's the it's what they don't cover that is the big problem.
Yeah, I think people don't know what they're getting.
Um my brother, I brought up Benghazi to him, and he had heard briefly about the situation, but he had no clue the details.
And well, what was his reaction when you gave him the details?
He he was he was really shocked about it.
And I also had meant he's in he's in um pharmaceuticals, and I told him his company is kind of waiting, kind of they they've had cutbacks and they're kind of waiting to see you know like January you know he wasn't sure what's going to happen with his company and I said well you know what they're waiting for and he said no what and I he I said they're waiting to see if Obama gets in or not.
I said, because if Obama gets in it you could really see some cuts even exposure of your company.
I don't think he had no clue.
I'm sure not.
I'm sure he didn't.
I'm uh most people don't.
It's gonna be fun to be here on the day in January people get their first paychecks.
Oh yeah.
When they see uh the the the Bush tax cuts ending, and that's gonna affect everybody, not just the rich, and the payroll tax and some of the uh the uh Obamacare taxes kids a whole bunch of stuff that kicks in January that I'm I'd be real interested to see.
I I I really will be interested to see how people react to that.
But I think I think Obama I think the Democrats have or Obama has done a good job at not just getting on the news media, but but putting himself I think there's an image problem that Republicans have and conservatives have in that and it's not I don't even think it directly you know is has anything to do with how Romney comes off.
I think that I know people that are liberals that think all conservatives are against alternative energy and against helping people, and which is exactly the opposite.
But they're not informed.
They're just they're kept in, you know.
If you do if you don't listen to you or you know, other strictly conservative outlets, you're not going to you don't get the image, the true image of what a conservative is on some of these issues.
Well, clearly there's a branding problem the Republican Party has.
Clearly it uh it exists, and and the the main reason it does is that I don't know I don't know anybody.
I really don't.
Even I'm I'm I'm 25 years into this program.
And if if I were to be asked, how do you fight people lying about I don't know what.
I I to this day, I don't know how to deal with that.
Other than being who you are every day, and but but uh look at what they did to Romney in the early parts of the campaign, and by proud admission they did this.
They lied.
Romney was responsible for a guy's wife dying from cancer.
The press knew it wasn't true, but they marveled at the audacity and brilliance of the Obama campaign.
Stephanie Cutter was lying through her teeth every day about Romney being a felon, about herself not being involved in the commercial involving a guy's wife who died with cancer.
Uh then they say that Romney's a felon, then they say Romney's got this or Romney did that.
They caricatured Mitt Romney as the most mean-spirited, vicious, lying criminal, near felon, didn't care about somebody's wife day.
A hundred and eighty degrees from the truth.
The media knew it was happening.
Romney didn't respond to it because he's busy raising money at that moment.
In order to run ads later on in the campaign.
That's why Obama timed the the uh the the the Romney dirt campaign when they did.
So Romney throughout the campaign, never once.
The convention was the only effort that was made to refute any of that, but but they didn't say, by the way, what you're hearing about me isn't true.
They just brought person after person after person up to testify what essentially a great charitable nice guy Romney is and hope that it spoke for itself.
But there is no uh antidote.
And see, we are kind of hamstrung because we don't think we have to lie about the Democrats.
All we have to do is tell the truth about where their policies will lead, about what they intend with their policies.
That truth doesn't carry the day as often as their lies carry the day.
I'm not equipped to tell anybody how to deal with being lied about.
Uh and it.
You know, I'm somebody who has lied about routinely.
Anyway, I appreciate the call.
I'm way long here.
I wish I had more time to delve into this with you, but I've got to take a break.
We'll be back after this.
Okay, here's how it works.
Chris Van Holland, he's the number two or three guy in the House, Democrats.
He's from Maryland.
And he just said, if the Republicans do not go along with Obama's tax increases on the rich, then we have a financial collapse awaiting.
Was that his word financial collapse?
We're going over the financial cliff.
If we if if the Republicans don't agree to Obama's tax increases on the rich, we're going over to financial cliff.
Now, you could confiscate every dollar of income of a million dollars or over.
You could take everything not tax, just take everything anybody has over a million dollars, and you wouldn't make a dent in any you couldn't run the government for more than a month.
So Chris von Holland is telling us we are going over the financial cliff.
We are going to go over the financial cliff, folks.
Everybody in the Obama camp knows we are going over the financial cliff.
Whether we raise taxes on the rich or not, we're going over the financial raising taxes, confiscating the wealth's money would not save us.
There isn't the money.
But this is how this works now.
This is how this is how they do it.
Pressure's on now the Republicans.
It's not Obama, you see, whose policies are going to take us over financial.
Oh no!
It's this Republican creeps that won't go along with tax increases.
The New York Times just posted a graphic how Obama won re-election.
And you know what their subhead is?
Most of the nation shifted to the right in Tuesday's vote, but not far enough to secure a win for Mitt Romney.
I wish I had time to delve into that.
Maybe tomorrow, my friends.
And remember, hard to vote against Santa Claus.
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